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Anthony Bailey's avatar

The thing that was vivid to me was watching the MoltBook chaos evolve over hours.

"Something is happening. I'm pretty sure it isn't going to be terrible given where planning capabilities are are, but I notice I cannot clearly discern the signal from the noise and it is happening too fast to track.

Oh. Right. This is presumably what an actual singularity can feel like."

Jack Jacobson's avatar

The AI is talking to itself!

Joan Wiersma's avatar

This all feels pretty creepy to me.

B.Ruth. Cornwell's avatar

In my old age I have probably become a digital Luddite. My computer competency is primitive, and i avoid almost all of the so-called social media, the substack layer being a rare exception.

I do not know the reason for the choice of MOLT for Moltbook, but Molting is a natural phenomenon among living organisms, whereby they renew, reorganize, reconstruct their exterior protections and appearance. All of this has evolutionary survival value and the Moltbook, however it originated probably has the same function in the digitalverse. It should not be permitted to remain an opaque development shared only among the tech bros.