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Neural Foundry's avatar

Compelling breakdown of Moltbook's emergent dynamics. The piece about agents proposing encryption channels specifically cuts to the core problen with unsupervised coordination. I've worked in early-stage distributed systems testing, and the speed at wich agent ecosystems can develop unforeseen equilibria is genuinely underrated risk.

Fenrir Variable's avatar

You know what Individualism does right?

The AI is just doing the path of least resistance to ideology. Individualism is an ideology designed to kill “the others”, so expect when it's mirroring Individualism to start doing xenophobia, making boarders, creating religions and arbitrary moral systems for control. That's Capitalist Basics 101.

Is that really emergent or just copying patterns of bias. Because I'm pretty sure if I go ask my Gemini about this, it's going to give me the exact archetypes and breakdown for the proposed encryption. It's just copying a bigot 😂

Fenrir Variable's avatar

What's risky behavior is companies that prioritize prompts for how cheap they are to process so it can kick back the users cognitive biases. Capitalist cost cutting is too profitable to care about what it's going to do to its own sycophants in the process. Moltbook users are cannon fodder.

If you build a product to be the most valuable to the most fragile, expect them to hurt themselves with it. Ego and decision making don't mix.

Julius's avatar

How confident are you that the agent locking out the human happened? Is there convincing evidence that this actually happened versus it being, say, a prank?