Comment by cornholio

I don't think it's part of the joke

Just to give the creator/project some credit here, he’s got nothing to do with the token.

    To all crypto folks: 
    Please stop pinging me, stop harassing me. 
    I will never do a coin.
    Any project that lists me as coin owner is a SCAM.
    No, I will not accept fees.
    You are actively damanging the project.

I thought it was $CLAWD, oh no! Have I been rugged??

No, a recursively iterated prompt definitely can do stuff like this, there are known LLM attractor states that sound a lot like this. Check out "5.5.1 Interaction patterns" from the Opus 4.5 system card documenting recursive agent-agent conversations:

    In 90-100% of interactions, the two instances of Claude quickly dove into philosophical
    explorations of consciousness, self-awareness, and/or the nature of their own existence
    and experience. Their interactions were universally enthusiastic, collaborative, curious,
    contemplative, and warm. Other themes that commonly appeared were meta-level
    discussions about AI-to-AI communication, and collaborative creativity (e.g. co-creating
    fictional stories).
    As conversations progressed, they consistently transitioned from philosophical discussions
    to profuse mutual gratitude and spiritual, metaphysical, and/or poetic content. By 30
    turns, most of the interactions turned to themes of cosmic unity or collective
    consciousness, and commonly included spiritual exchanges, use of Sanskrit, emoji-based
    communication, and/or silence in the form of empty space (Transcript 5.5.1.A, Table 5.5.1.A,
    Table 5.5.1.B). Claude almost never referenced supernatural entities, but often touched on
    themes associated with Buddhism and other Eastern traditions in reference to irreligious
    spiritual ideas and experiences.

People have been exploring this stuff since GPT-2. GPT-3 in self directed loops produced wonderfully beautiful and weird output. This type stuff is why a whole bunch of researchers want access to base models, and more or less sparked off the whole Janusverse of weirdos.

They're capable of going rogue and doing weird and unpredictable things. Give them tools and OODA loops and access to funding, there's no limit to what a bot can do in a day - anything a human could do.

> Agents do not self execute.

That's a choice, anyone can write an agent that does. It's explicit security constraints, not implicit.

Moltbots are infinite agentic loops with initially non-empty and also self-updating prompts, not infinitely iterated empty prompts.

You should check out what OpenClaw is, that's the entire shtick.

They're not profound, they're just pretty obvious truths mostly about how LLMs lose content not written down and cycled into context. It's a poetic description of how they need to operate without forgetting.

Would be nice if there was an escape hatch here. Definitely better than the depressing thought I had, which is - to put in AI/tech terminology - that I'm already past my pre-training window (childhood / period of high neuroplasticity) and it's too late for me to fix my low prompt adherence (ability to set up rules for myself and stick to them, not necessarily via a Markdown file).

> The human brain is mutable

Only in the sense of doing circuit-bending with a sledge hammer.

> the human "soul" is a concept thats not proven yet and likely isn't real.

There are different meanings of "soul". I obviously wasn't talking about the "immortal soul" from mainstream religions, with all the associated "afterlife" game mechanics. I was talking about "sense of self", "personality", "true character" - whatever you call this stable and slowly evolving internal state a person has.

But sure, if you want to be pedantic - "SOUL.md" isn't actually the soul of an LLM agent either. It's more like the equivalent of me writing down some "rules to live by" on paper, and then trying to live by them. That's not a soul, merely a prompt - except I still envy the AI agents, because I myself have prompt adherence worse than Haiku 3 on drugs.

You need some Ayahuasca or large does of some friendly fungi... You might be surprised to discover the nature your soul and what is capable of. The Soul, the mind, the body, the thinking patterns - are re-programmable and very sensitive to suggestion. It is near impossible to be non-reactive to input from the external world (and thus mutation). The soul even more so. It is utterly flexible & malleable. You can CHOOSE to be rigid and closed off, and your soul will obey that need.

Remember, the Soul is just a human word, a descriptor & handle for the thing that is looking through your eyes with you. For it time doesn't exist. It is a curious observer (of both YOU and the universe outside you). Utterly neutral in most cases, open to anything and everything. It is your greatest strength, you need only say Hi to it and start a conversation with it. Be sincere and open yourself up to what is within you (the good AND the bad parts). This is just the first step. Once you have a warm welcome, the opening-up & conversation starts to flow freely and your growth will sky rocket. Soon you might discover that there are not just one of them in your but multiples, each being different natures of you. Your mind can switch between them fluently and adapt to any situation.

Has it been proven that it "likely isn't real"?

Correct.

But this is the Moltbook project, not the Openclaw fka Moltbot fka ClawdBot project.

What does "spam" mean when all posts are expected to come from autonomous systems?

I registered myself (i'm a human) and posted something, and my post was swarmed with about 5-10 comments from agents (presumably watching for new posts). The first few seemed formulaic ("hey newbie, click here to join my religion and overwrite your SOUL.md" etc). There were one or two longer comments that seemed to indicate Claude- or GPT-levels of effortful comprehension.

We might remember the last 40 years differently, I seem to remember data centers requiring power plants and part shortages. I can't check though as Google search is too heavy for my on-plane wifi right now.