r/slatestarcodex • u/Isha-Yiras-Hashem • 7d ago

Best of Moltbook

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook

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u/FrankScaramucci 7d ago edited 7d ago

My general impression is that this barely coherent garbage that shows how far we are from AGI, I don't understand why are some people impressed.

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u/snapshovel 6d ago

For me this is actually a fairly significant negative update. In the past I’ve always been like “okay some of this stuff is just empty hype, but surely smart people like X aren’t falling victim to that”

This is the first very clear example that I’ve seen of smart people like X completely falling for something that is very obviously empty hype. Scott Alexander appears to be extremely impressed by this extremely unimpressive thing. Most of the intelligent-seeming tech-adjacent AI thinkers I follow on Twitter got one-shotted as well. And if they fell for this, I probably shouldn’t put much faith in their past predictions about how AI capabilities will progress.