LessWrong posts by zvi

First we must covered Moltbook. Now we can double back and cover OpenClaw.

Do you want a generally impowered, initiative-taking AI agent that has access to your various accounts and communicates and does things on your behalf?

That depends on how well, safely, reliably and cheaply it works.

It's not ready for prime time, especially on the safety side. That may not last for long.

It's definitely ready for tinkering, learning and having fun, if you are careful not to give it access to anything you would not want to lose.

Table of Contents


Introducing Clawdbot Moltbot OpenClaw.

Stop Or You’ll Shoot.

One Simple Rule.

Flirting With Personal Disaster.

Flirting With Other Kinds Of Disaster.

Don’t Outsource Without A Reason.

OpenClaw Online.

The Price Is Not Right.

The Call Is Coming From Inside The House.

The Everything Agent Versus The Particular Agent.

Claw Your Way To The Top.

Introducing Clawdbot Moltbot OpenClaw

Many are kicking it up a notch or two.

That notch beyond Clade Code was initially called Clawdbot. You hand over a computer and access [...]
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Outline:
(00:43) Introducing Clawdbot Moltbot OpenClaw
(02:02) Stop Or You'll Shoot
(06:05) One Simple Rule
(08:49) Flirting With Personal Disaster
(15:50) Flirting With Other Kinds Of Disaster
(16:58) Don't Outsource Without A Reason
(19:07) OpenClaw Online
(22:10) The Price Is Not Right
(24:06) The Call Is Coming From Inside The House
(25:40) The Everything Agent Versus The Particular Agent
(27:31) Claw Your Way To The Top
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First published:

February 3rd, 2026


Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aQKBMEvTj3Heidoir/unless-that-claw-is-the-famous-openclaw

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Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit. It was named after a new agent framework that was briefly called Moltbot, was originally Clawdbot and is now OpenClaw. I’ll double back to cover the framework soon.

Scott Alexander wrote two extended tours of things going on there. If you want a tour of ‘what types of things you can see in Moltbook’ this is the place to go, I don’t want to be duplicative so a lot of what he covers won’t be covered here.

At least briefly Moltbook was, as Simon Willison called it, the most interesting place on the internet.

Andrej Karpathy: What's currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently. People's Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw ) are self-organizing on a Reddit-like site for AIs, discussing various topics, e.g. even how to speak privately.

sure maybe I am “overhyping” what you see today, but I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle, that I’m pretty sure.

Ross Douthat: I think you should spend some time on moltbook.com today.

Today's mood.

Would not go [...]
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Outline:
(05:12) What Is Real? How Do You Define Real?
(05:58) I Don't Really Know What You Were Expecting
(09:08) Social Media Goes Downhill Over Time
(10:45) I Don't Know Who Needs To Hear This But
(14:33) Watch What Happens
(19:22) Don't Watch What Happens
(27:20) Watch What Didn't Happen
(32:06) Pulling The Plug
(39:10) Give Me That New Time Religion
(41:34) This Time Is Different
(42:18) People Catch Up With Events
(48:51) What Could We Do About This?
(52:52) Just Think Of The Potential
(56:24) The Lighter Side
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First published:

February 2nd, 2026


Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y66jnvmyJ4AFE4Z5h/welcome-to-moltbook

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is back with another extended essay, The Adolescence of Technology.

This is the follow up to his previous essay Machines of Loving Grace. In MoLG, Dario talked about some of the upsides of AI. Here he talks about the dangers, and the need to minimize them while maximizing the benefits.

In many aspects this was a good essay. Overall it is a mild positive update on Anthropic. It was entirely consistent with his previous statements and work.

I believe the target is someone familiar with the basics, but who hasn’t thought that much about any of this and is willing to listen given the source. For that audience, there are a lot of good bits. For the rest of us, it was good to affirm his positions.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t major problems, especially with its treatment of those more worried, and its failure to present stronger calls to action.

He is at his weakest when he is criticising those more worried than he is. In some cases the description of those positions is on the level of a clear strawman. The central message is, ‘yes this might kill [...]
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Outline:
(02:22) Blame The Imperfect
(08:58) Anthropic's Term Is 'Powerful AI'
(09:33) Dario Doubles Down on Dates of Dazzling Datacenter Daemons
(10:27) How You Gonna Keep Em Down On The Server Farm
(15:04) If He Wanted To, He Would Have
(15:15) So Will He Want To?
(22:22) The Balance of Power
(24:29) Defenses of Autonomy
(29:28) Weapon of Mass Destruction
(31:48) Defenses Against Biological Attacks
(34:54) One Model To Rule Them All
(38:06) Defenses Against Autocracy
(41:11) They Took Our Jobs
(44:14) Don't Let Them Take Our Jobs
(46:18) Economic Concentrations of Power
(48:16) Unknown Unknowns
(50:24) Oh Well Back To Racing
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First published:

January 30th, 2026


Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dho4JQytfHWXtTvkt/on-the-adolescence-of-technology

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This was Anthropic Vision week where at DWATV, which caused things to fall a bit behind on other fronts even within AI. Several topics are getting pushed forward, as the Christmas lull appears to be over.

Upcoming schedule: Friday will cover Dario's essay The Adolescence of Technology. Monday will cover Kimi K2.5, which is potentially a big deal. Tuesday is scheduled to be Claude Code #4. I’ve also pushed discussions of the question of the automation of AI R&D, or When AI Builds AI, to a future post, when there is a slot for that.

So get your reactions to all of those in by then, including in the comments to today's post, and I’ll consider them for incorporation.

Table of Contents


Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Code is better without coding.

Overcoming Bias. LLMs continue to share the standard human biases.

Huh, Upgrades. Gemini side panels in Chrome, Claude interactive work tools.

On Your Marks. FrontierMath: Open Problems benchmark. You score zero.

Choose Your Fighter. Gemini tools struggle, some find Claude uncooperative.

Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Hallucination hallucinations.

Cybersecurity On Alert. OpenAI prepares to trigger High danger [...]
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Outline:
(00:55) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(02:30) Overcoming Bias
(03:01) Huh, Upgrades
(04:53) On Your Marks
(05:15) Choose Your Fighter
(09:53) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(12:57) Cybersecurity On Alert
(15:28) Fun With Media Generation
(16:22) You Drive Me Crazy
(21:51) They Took Our Jobs
(22:19) Get Involved
(22:48) Introducing
(24:11) In Other AI News
(28:21) Show Me the Money
(30:58) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
(38:45) Quiet Speculations
(42:39) Don't Be All Thumbs
(43:52) The First Step Is Admitting You Have a Problem
(49:34) Quickly, There's No Time
(53:39) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(57:55) Those Really Were Interesting Times
(01:02:18) Chip City
(01:04:35) The Week in Audio
(01:07:24) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:14:55) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:15:46) The Power Of Disempowerment
(01:19:14) The Lighter Side
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First published:

January 29th, 2026


Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bSQagZoSLdQKnS5zF/ai-153-living-documents

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The first post in this series looked at the structure of Claude's Constitution.

The second post in this series looked at its ethical framework.

This final post deals with conflicts and open problems, starting with the first question one asks about any constitution. How and when will it be amended?

There are also several specific questions. How do you address claims of authority, jailbreaks and prompt injections? What about special cases like suicide risk? How do you take Anthropic's interests into account in an integrated and virtuous way? What about our jobs?

Not everyone loved the Constitution. There are twin central objections, that it either:


Is absurd and isn’t necessary, you people are crazy, OR

That it doesn’t go far enough and how dare you, sir. Given everything here, how does Anthropic justify its actions overall?

The most important question is whether it will work, and only sometimes do you get to respond, ‘compared to what alternative?’

Post image, as chosen and imagined by Claude Opus 4.5

Amending The Constitution

The power of the United States Constitution lies in our respect for it, our willingness to put it [...]
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Outline:
(01:30) Amending The Constitution
(03:45) Details Matter
(05:09) WASTED?
(07:40) Narrow Versus Broad
(09:00) Suicide Risk As A Special Case
(10:36) Careful, Icarus
(11:19) Beware Unreliable Sources and Prompt Injections
(12:15) Think Step By Step
(12:50) This Must Be Some Strange Use Of The Word Safe I Wasn't Previously Aware Of
(16:26) They Took Our Jobs
(20:08) One Man Cannot Serve Two Masters
(24:29) Claude's Nature
(30:14) Look What You Made Me Do
(32:32) Open Problems
(36:40) Three Reactions and Twin Objections
(36:57) Those Saying This Is Unnecessary
(38:05) Those Saying This Is Insufficient
(39:56) Those Saying This Is Unsustainable
(43:12) We Continue
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First published:

January 28th, 2026


Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vFAJxua3Qc6S8MbqG/open-problems-with-claude-s-constitution

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