Bath salts. Ever seen an alpha-PVP user with eyes out of their orbits, sitting through the night in front of basically a random string generator, sending you snippets of its output and firehosing with monologues about how they're right at the verge of discovering an epically groundbreaking correlation in it?

That is what's happening to nerds right now. Some next-level mind-boggling psychosis-inducing shit has to do with it.

Either this or a completely different substance: AI propaganda.

I find it's the same kind of "tech savvy" person who puts an amazon echo in every room.

Whats it got to do with being a nerd? Just a matter of risk aversity.

Personally I dont give a shit and its cool having this thing setup at home and being able to have it run whatever I want through text messages.

And it's not that hard to just run it in docker if you're so worried

The computer nerds understand how to isolate this stuff to mitigate the risk. I’m not in on openclaw just yet but I do know it’s got isolation options to run in a vm. I’m curious to see how they handle controls on “write” operations to everyday life.

I could see something like having a very isolated process that can, for example, send email, which the claw can invoke, but the isolated process has sanity controls such as human intervention or whitelists. And this isolated process could be LLM-driven also (so it could make more sophisticated decisions about “is this ok”) but never exposed to untrusted input.

> and now I'm supposed to let LLM agents go wild on my data?

Who is forcing you to do that?

The people you are amazed by know their own minds and understand the risks.

> That's just insane. Insanity.

I feel the same way! Just watching on in horror lol