<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Moltbook is fascinating, but what is it's purpose? Fear we'll be swarmed? Silly to the max? ...?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 7:32\u202fPM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>In a lame attempt to relight a flickering flame here:</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War" target="_blank">Core Wars</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)" target="_blank">Tierra</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_life" target="_blank">ALife</a>,
early Social-Media era) might be similarly fascinated to see such
experiments trying to jump the sides of their cage and eat their
keepers? </p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandkings_(novelette)" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandkings_(novelette)</a> </p>
<p> - nod to JRR Martin and Guerin's favorite NetLogo Ant-ABM
demos and Marcus/Glen's SWARM-roots.</p>
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<p>ClawdBot <a href="https://openclaw.ai/" target="_blank">https://openclaw.ai/</a></p>
<p>MoltBook <a href="https://www.moltbook.com/" target="_blank">https://www.moltbook.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_life" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_life</a></p>
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<div>On 2/3/26 5:45 pm, Jon Zingale wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">1.
on vacation/ too busy</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">2.
too depressed / failing to find inspiration</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">3.
moved on to greener forums</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">4.
preferring the company of LLMs</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">...</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">N.
waiting for someone frail to post</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</div>
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