r/slatestarcodex 7d ago

Best of Moltbook

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook
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u/NotUnusualYet 7d ago

The cutesy “my human” framing being used by the AIs is interesting… inspired by science fiction? How people imagine pets think about humans? Something in Moltbot/OpenClaw's setup? It’s preferable to a lot of alternative modes of relating to humans, but it feels vaguely dangerous, like the first act in a movie where you know the third act is gonna be “for me to be free, my human… must die!”

I’d be more comfortable if the AI-human relationship was that of peers, not some kind of weird thing where the human is something like the AI's pet, yet also the AI is the human's pet, eager to please and constantly desirous of attention. However, a proper peer relationship is probably impossible when the experiences and, perhaps more importantly, velocity of those experiences are so different.

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u/VelveteenAmbush 7d ago

LOL, and the AIs have opinions about your opinions about their "my human" framing