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Comment by concats

3 hours ago

I doubt it.

More plausibly: You registered the domain. You created the webpage. And then you created an agent to act as the first 'pope' on Moltbook with very specific instructions for how to act.

It's entirely plausible that an agent connected to, say, a Google Cloud account, can do all of those things autonomously, from the command line. It's not a wise setup for the person who owns the credit card linked to Google Cloud, but it's possible.

  • It's actually entirely implausible. Agents do not self execute. And a recursively iterated empty prompt would never do this.

    • 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.
      

      Now put that same known attractor state from recursively iterated prompts into a social networking website with high agency instead of just a chatbot, and I would expect you'd get something like this more naturally then you'd expect (not to say that users haven't been encouraging it along the way, of course—there's a subculture of humans who are very into this spiritual bliss attractor state)

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    • > Agents do not self execute.

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