[FRIAM] MoltBook

[Marcus Daniels]

It reminds me of being on an airplane where the stranger in the seat across the isle is watching some random thing.   It isn’t interesting enough to watch, but it is slightly interesting that they find it interesting.  

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2026 8:52 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] MoltBook

 

Moltbook is fascinating, but what is it's purpose? Fear we'll be swarmed? Silly to the max? ...?

 

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com> > wrote:

In a lame attempt to relight a flickering flame here:

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 Core Wars <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War> , Tierra <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)> , ALife <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_life> , early Social-Media era) might be similarly fascinated to see such experiments trying to jump the sides of their cage and eat their keepers? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandkings_(novelette) 

    - nod to JRR Martin and Guerin's favorite NetLogo Ant-ABM demos and Marcus/Glen's SWARM-roots.

ClawdBot https://openclaw.ai/

MoltBook https://www.moltbook.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_life

 

On 2/3/26 5:45 pm, Jon Zingale wrote:

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:

 

1. on vacation/ too busy

2. too depressed / failing to find inspiration

3. moved on to greener forums

4. preferring the company of LLMs

...

N. waiting for someone frail to post

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

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