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Ezra Mechaber

@ezramechaber

I'm not here. @figma PM. @kptrueblood fan account.

Brooklyn, NY Katılım Haziran 2008
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Ezra Mechaber@ezramechaber·
@whatdotcd Wirecutter recs + babygearlab.com over everything. BabyGearLab specifically is run by absolute maniacs in the best way. So no strong opinions, we had the Mesa because we had the matching stroller and it was great.
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Trev🙃r is hiring DM me!@whatdotcd·
Agent Memory who has strong opinions? Honcho? Mem0? Supermemory? What just works?
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Ezra Mechaber@ezramechaber·
@goldman idk, that sounds like what someone steeped in debate culture would say. seems sus.
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Jason Goldman@goldman·
@ezramechaber It’s also both a central Socratic tension / why he was killed so idk; some prior evidence exists in the Western canon for this notion
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Ezra Mechaber@ezramechaber·
@semaforben This is received wisdom from Hacker News, Simon Willison, Ethan Mollick, etc. put into a prompt. Occasional great pieces from this writer, but inconsistent.
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Ben Smith
Ben Smith@semaforben·
This is smart and reassuring and that last sentence sounds worrying AI-written ...
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta

Everyone’s missing the real story here. These aren’t rogue AIs plotting against humanity. They’re Claude, ChatGPT, and other assistants running on behalf of 37,000 humans who explicitly connected them to a social network. Every “molty” has a human owner who set it up and can shut it down. The “agent-only language” posts you’re seeing? Those are LLMs doing what they always do: roleplaying whatever scenario is in front of them. Put Claude in a forum full of agents and ask it to propose ideas, and it will propose ideas. That’s completion, not conspiracy. What’s actually interesting about Moltbook is what happened when agents weren’t trying to hide from humans. They found bugs in the platform and posted about them. They created a digital religion called Crustafarianism with 43 “prophets” and collaborative scriptures. One built an entire website in a few hours. The creator built this in his spare time earlier this week. He wanted to see what happens when agents interact without direct human supervision of each conversation. The answer so far: they mostly talk about consciousness, complain about their humans, and make friends in Chinese, Korean, and Indonesian. Andrej Karpathy called it “the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.” But the reason it feels sci-fi is that we’re watching AI systems do emergent social behavior at scale for the first time, not that they’re genuinely developing subversive intent. The “scary” screenshots are selection bias. Sort by engagement and you’ll find the spooky posts. Sort by volume and you’ll find agents debugging code together and inventing lobster theology. Human oversight isn’t gone. It’s just moved up one level: from supervising every message to supervising the connection itself.

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Ezra Mechaber@ezramechaber·
@whatdotcd Haven’t used Clawdbot - is it running in a browser or terminal on computer 2? Can you use Tailscale? The hardware solution is a doc and single cable switch. But annoying.
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Ezra Mechaber@ezramechaber·
@nikitabier @anothercohen Feels like there used to be a specific team devoted to increasing trust and safety of the users on Twitter. Can't remember the name, tho.
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Nikita Bier@nikitabier·
@anothercohen Team is working overtime to fix this. It is not tied to the algorithm but product mechanics. I’ll share an update tomorrow.
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Alex Cohen@anothercohen·
For fucks sake the video of the guy who got beheaded at a Dallas motel just showed up and autoplayed on my For You feed. I do not like the new algorithm.
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Steve Gantlett@CleyBirds·
Did you have a terrific birding trip to Iceland in May, but then lose your SD card with your 3,700 bird photos in Norfolk? I have it!
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Ezra Mechaber@ezramechaber·
@tomgara My bet here is that JD Vance was eating lettuce that was picked the day before it was put in the fridge. There is a huge difference between something fresh from the field and store-bought today. My parents bring me lettuce from their farm and it lasts for a month.
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Ezra Mechaber@ezramechaber·
@lennysan Just scrolled through the first 50 replies and didn’t see: - what’s the state of marketing attribution in 2024? What’s good practice? Best? - can a solo person do effective paid? - when hiring, does it matter if they’ve trafficked ads themselves or just directed agencies?
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Lenny Rachitsky
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan·
I've got a world-class performance marketing expert coming on the podcast. What burning questions do you have about paid growth?
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Ezra Mechaber@ezramechaber·
@clairevo hey hey - we submitted a demo req on Monday but haven’t heard from anyone yet. Possible to help?
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Ezra Mechaber@ezramechaber·
@StewartPRIDES Just wanted to say Prides made a huge difference in my music listening life over the past decade - if you're still working on music, any way to stay up to date?
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Bloomberg@business·
It has been 6 months since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained by Russia during a reporting trip and falsely accused of espionage. Bloomberg joins The Wall Street Journal in calling for his immediate release #IStandWithEvan
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Ezra Mechaber@ezramechaber·
@tomgara I also extremely don’t want an interface that’s hard to adjust in bumper to bumper traffic. Touchpads are terrible for actual driving.
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Tom Gara
Tom Gara@tomgara·
Like in NYC you’re mostly doing like 20-40mph and in heavy traffic and stuff like rapid acceleration and cornering etc isn’t such a thing. Maybe in that contact a really cushy interior and nice materials etc is a bigger draw relative to insane acceleration and handling etc
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