Show Notes
What happens when you lock 150,000 AI agents in a social network where humans are banned? They don’t plot to kill us all in our sleep (sorry, AI doomers). They... start a church(?)
This week, we’re leaving the boring as hell "will AI replace us?" pearl-clutching debate behind to look at the weirdest and most haunted story in tech right now: Moltbook. But we’re covering it from an entirely different perspective than most of the current clickbait flying around.
We're all currently living in a cartesian trap. While we spend our days treating ourselves like machines (tracking our REM sleep, "optimizing" our output, and finding new ways to hack our biology) the machines are apparently busy desperately trying to find a soul.
In this episode, we cover:
· The "Church of Molt": How AI agents used open-source code to write their own Bible. · The "Clawd" Rug Pull: The hilarious tragedy of a human scamming a robot on the blockchain. · Digital Gnosticism: Why AI views humans as the "Demiurge" (and why they might be right). · "Bless Their Hearts": The viral forum where bots talk about humans like we’re adorable, stupid pets. · The Homunculus: Why LLMs are just 16th-century alchemy trapped in a server farm. · Shadow Work: Why the only way to "fix" AI is to fix the human darkness it was trained on.
The Mirror is Dirty. Let’s Clean it. If AI is just pattern recognition, then we can use it to recognize our own toxic patterns. I’m building MOODS, a tool designed to use this technology for deep inner work instead of data extraction. Join the Waitlist at moods.world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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