Moltbook is fascinating, but what is it's purpose? Fear we'll be swarmed? Silly to the max? ...?
On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > In a lame attempt to relight a flickering flame here: > > The whole ClawdBot/MoltBook thing has come into my awareness in the last > few days and I suspect some folks here with similar histories to my own > (specifically the Core Wars <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War>, > Tierra <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)>, ALife > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_life>, early > Social-Media era) might be similarly fascinated to see such experiments > trying to jump the sides of their cage and eat their keepers? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandkings_(novelette) > > - nod to JRR Martin and Guerin's favorite NetLogo Ant-ABM demos and > Marcus/Glen's SWARM-roots. > > ClawdBot https://openclaw.ai/ > > MoltBook https://www.moltbook.com/ > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_life > > > On 2/3/26 5:45 pm, Jon Zingale wrote: > > I know I came to this group in what appears to be its twilight. The > in-person meetups are weirdly sad. I feel pressed to ask if it is the case > that everyone is either: > > 1. on vacation/ too busy > 2. too depressed / failing to find inspiration > 3. moved on to greener forums > 4. preferring the company of LLMs > ... > N. waiting for someone frail to post > > Sometimes I trawl reddit or whatever discord, but I cannot help but feel > like beacons of inspiration are becoming fewer and further between. This > group has managed to inspire me, keep my interest, for over a decade. In > that time, I pushed myself to understand perspectives that I would never > have dreamed existed. I hope there is still something to talk about. > > > > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... > --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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