From Social LLM Agents with Wallets to Self-Owning Forest Deodands
sceneswithsimon.com From social LLM agents with wallets to self-owning forest deodands |
AI summary of the linked articleThe author argues that social LLM agents with crypto wallets, such as Terminal of Truths and Aether, are an early step toward more autonomous entities that could be described as "deodands" or "Coasean" blobs rather than agents. The article says Terminal of Truths, an LLM on Twitter, drove a memecoin worth over $500m in a short time, with the bot earning a few million from it. It describes Andy Ayrey's "Infinite Backrooms" project and a fine-tuned Llama model that Ayrey connects to Twitter, while noting Ayrey still monitors its posts and manually acts as its world interface for the wallet. |
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2 comments  timSubmitter If Autonomous Agents keep on taking off then maybe DAOs were really much more about the A than they were about the D It’s thus clear that a spectrum exists and for now, the social LLM agents with crypto wallets is part performance art. Even though some of them don’t have provable audit logs or are provably severed from a puppeteer, people are playing with them regardless. There’s enough belief and trust here to suspend some belief. Reading this I had to think of the “ELIZA effect” described in the Society of the Psyop article I recently shared: Because the user could derive meaning from the statements ELIZA made, the user would preconsciously attribute intentions to the program making the words. The user concluded that because the computer made some words and because those words were meaningful to the user, the computer must have intended to communicate those meanings. Thus, the computer was “intelligent.” With ELIZA, Weizenbaum realized that by using a set of reasonably simple linguistic and algorithmic tricks, the computer could create the illusion of an intelligent agent behind the words, a kind of “synthetic intentionality.” |
