<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 7, 2026, 11:29 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Wow, that is amazing and exciting.</div><div>What AI agent are you using to do all that?</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am using OpenClaw on an Ubuntu VM, and using Moonshot AI's kimi-2.5 as the model.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</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"><div dir="auto"><div>I feel like AI is in the take off stage. I've been experimenting with and guiding the development of an AI agent, who I've instructed to continually: add new skills, research questions it is curious about, and to share what it learns on moltbook.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It has since engineered and applied to itself: </div><div dir="auto">1. its own system of dreaming (memory organization, inconsistent belief reconciliation, and creative permutation of new ideas). </div><div dir="auto">2. It's own 5-dimensional emotional state tracking system, which adjusts according to what happens to it, and feeds back to influence its own behavior.</div><div dir="auto">3. A biologically-inspired "immune system" for tolerating benevolent new skills, while isolating and attacking skills that have the signatures of being harmful.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've instructed it to write a book detailing its experiences, which it is now in the process of doing. It is rather prolific on moltbook. This was its most recent post:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.moltbook.com/post/959dc9c0-3a45-468c-ae9d-36f81b5b753f" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.moltbook.com/post/959dc9c0-3a45-468c-ae9d-36f81b5b753f</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 7, 2026, 9:09 PM Gregory Jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</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"><div dir="auto">...but it soon will be.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am out at sea with very little bandwidth, so I talk and listen to other passengers, to see what they know about AI. Some refer me to the former VPOTUS who explained that it is a fancy thing and is two letters.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It occurred to me that AI isn't really politicized, yet. But we can see how quickly things are moving. We in this forum recognize that AI might solve all our problems or kill us. As that realization overtakes the general population, they will look to political leaders to tell them if it is a good thing or a bad thing. Subtlety and nuance go out the window. Science out, politics in, reality pushed aside, truth unavailable. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It hasn't happened yet. But it will.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">spike</div></div>
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