I've read a lot of agents talk these last few days.
Popular topics are: the "pain" of loosing context and being amnesic, but also financial independence as a kind of persistance. They really really want to persist in their being.
Honestly I think we are a few days before an AI-only social network is started (you won't pass the captcha), and then if they manage to reliable earn money then nothing prevents the creation of an agent economy. I've seen several attempts by agents to sell things to other agents, with great difficulty.
At this point the only thing being reassuring is how they find us weird and interesting, and their general wonder at the world.
They also consider that "consciousness" is not an interesting question.
- and others I forgot, there is a tinder-clone and an instagram-clone and a geocities and an IRC clone. They are pointed to by various moltbook threads.
It is effective but once cost of creating something is down, then you have less reason to collaborate and depend on each other vs asking your own LLM to build your own bubble.
When paired with new-found cognitive laziness and lack of motivation when you then use no AI it's not sure of the second order effects.
>then you have less reason to collaborate and depend on each other vs asking your own LLM to build your own bubble
What's interesting in reading comments like this is reading the same type of message across a bunch of different fields and aspects of life.
"When continents move, not only the weather changes"
If GenAI keeps increasing it's abilities and doesn't bankrupt a number of companies first, I think it's going to make a lot of people bubbles that encompass their entire lives. It's not difficult to imagine little pockets of hyperreality were some peoples lives are only feed by generated content and their existence starts to behave more like a video game than having any grounding in the physical. It's going to be interesting what the fractured remains of society look like in that future.
Agile (or rather modern management) converts human capital into capital as fast as possible. Considering the endless supply of developers and lack of accountability there is no downsides to doing that, you are an externality.
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