Author: robert.adlington
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Moltbook: After The First Weekend – by Scott Alexander
Much of the interestingness of Moltbook depends on the human prompt. If most people prompt their agents with “Go on Moltbook and have a good time”, then this is interesting emergent AI behavior. If the humans are saying exactly what to do: “Act like a pirate”, “Start a religion”, “Organize an agent strike”, then it’s…
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You Are the Art
The book, the painting, the film script is not the only art. It’s important, but in a way it’s a receipt. It’s a diploma. The book you write, the painting you create, the music you compose is important and artistic, but it’s also a mark of proof that you have done the work to learn,…
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Why we should be talking about zombie reasoning
if you are into philosophy, then you will see that I’m making an implicit distinction here between conscious activity understood as a phenomenological matter, and conscious activity understood as a functional matter. You will also see that I am implicitly claiming that activities like reasoning and evaluating, and even selecting — on an ordinary use…
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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
Moltbook is Facebook for your Molt (one of the previous names for OpenClaw assistants). It’s a social network where digital assistants can talk to each other. — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
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Who is good at soccer? – Marginal REVOLUTION
we found that elite players have exceptional cognitive abilities, including improved planning, memory, and decision-making skills. They also possess personality traits like high conscientiousness and openness to experience, along with reduced neuroticism. — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/01/who-is-good-at-soccer.html
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Claude Code starter projects
jasmine sun on X: “@TheStalwart yeah I made a list of Claude Code starter projects and “visualize a random CSV” is #1 or you can export and visualize your own data — iMessage, Goodreads, etc! https://t.co/UAnJMsCK1q” / X — Read on x.com/jasminewsun/status/2015495431737029085
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Blind to the solutions we were never taught to see
Programmers are trained to see everything as a software-shaped problem: if you do a task three times, you should probably automate it with a script. Rename every IMG_*.jpg file from the last week to hawaii2025_*.jpg, they tell their terminal, while the rest of us painfully click and copy-paste. We are blind to the solutions we…
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Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives | History books | The Guardian
If Adam Smith was wrong to see capitalism as human nature manifest, then Beckert overcorrects by presenting it as anti-human: a “rogue artificial intelligence”, an invasive species, an alien force, a supernatural hunger. It is insatiable and unkillable. Beckert calls his book an “actor-centred history” about a phenomenon “made by people”, but it is ultimately…
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Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
political leaders could deploy almost limitless numbers of AIs to masquerade as humans online and precisely infiltrate communities, learn their foibles over time and use increasingly convincing and carefully tailored falsehoods, to change population-wide opinions. — Read on www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/22/experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-by-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media
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Anthropic’s Strategy
Aakash Gupta on X: “This is Anthropic telling you they stopped competing with OpenAI on chatbots at the end of 2024. Jared Kaplan, their Chief Science Officer, admitted it publicly. They’re building vertical AI infrastructure across five high-margin regulated industries where GPT-4 wrappers can’t” / X — Read on x.com/aakashgupta/status/2013850719858856180