gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There's a small push by promptfondlers to make this "a thing".

See for example Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

LW is monitoring it for bad behavior: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WyrxmTwYbrwsT72sD/moltbook-data-repository

I'm planning on using this data to catalog "in the wild" instances of agents resisting shutdown, attempting to acquire resources, and avoiding oversight.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it went like this

  • clawd is a pun on claude, lobsters have claws
  • oh no we're gonna get sued, but lobsters moult/molt their shells, so we're gonna go ther
  • "molt" sounds dumb, let's go with openclaws

it's vibe product naming

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (11 children)

what absolute bullshit

https://www.moltbook.com/

AKA Reddit for "agents".

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a scene in *Bladerunner 2049" where some dude explains that all public records were destroyed a decade or so earlier, presumably by malicious actors. This scenario looks more and more plausible with each passing day, but replace malice with stupidity.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago (10 children)

LWer: Heritage Foundation has some good ideas but they're not enough into eugenics for my taste

This is completely opposed to the Nietzschean worldview, which looks toward the next stage in human evolution, the Overman. The conservative demands the freezing of evolution and progress, the sacralization of the peasant in his state of nature, pregnancy, nursing, throwing up. “Perfection” the conservative puts in scare quotes, he wants the whole concept to disappear, replaced by a universal equality that won’t deem anyone inferior. Perhaps it’s because he fears a society looking toward the future will leave him behind. Or perhaps it’s because he had been taught his Christian morality requires him to identify with the weak, for, as Jesus said, “blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” In his glorification of the “natural ecology of the family,” the conservative fails even by his own logic, as in the state of nature, parents allow sick offspring to die to save resources for the healthy. This was the case in the animal kingdom and among our peasant ancestors.

Some young, BASED Rightists like eugenics, and think the only reason conservatives don’t is that liberals brainwashed them that it’s evil. As more and more taboos erode, yet the one against eugenics remains, it becomes clear that dysgenics is not incidental to conservatism, but driven by the ideology itself, its neuroticism about the human body and hatred of the superior.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (19 children)

enjoy this glorious piece of LW lingo

Aumann's agreement is pragmatically wrong. For bounded levels of compute you can't necessarily converge on the meta level of evidence convergence procedures.

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no I don't know what it means, and I don't want it to be explained to me. Just let me bask in its inscrutibility.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Let's see if you get any takers.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

It certainly feels like there's been a concerted push to concern-troll about anti-AI sentiment on lobste.rs. Every day I recalibrate if it's worth keeping my account there.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I also didn't find the argument very persuasive.

The LLM companies aren't paying anythnig for content. Why should they stop scraping now?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

I think it’s worth pointing out that our guy is crashing out primarily because of this post about integrating with Bluesky,

I've never bothered getting into ATproto arguments. They always have a faint air of fashwashing over them. Or it's a bit like Urbit where only those in the know are welcome.

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