Remember OpenClaw and Moltbook?
One might say they already seem a little quaint. So earlier-this-week.
That's the internet having an absurdly short attention span, rather than those events not being important. They were definitely important.
They were also early. It is not quite time for AI social networks or fully unleashed autonomous AI agents. The security issues have not been sorted out, and reliability and efficiency aren’t quite there.
There's two types of reactions to that. The wrong one is ‘oh it is all hype.’
The right one is ‘we’ll get back to this in a few months.’
Other highlights of the week include reactions to Dario Amodei's essay The Adolescence of Technology. The essay was trying to do many things for many people. In some ways it did a good job. In other ways, especially when discussing existential risks and those more concerned than Dario, it let us down.
Everyone excited for the Super Bowl?
Table of Contents
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Outline:
(01:13) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility
(03:45) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility
(04:20) Huh, Upgrades
(06:13) They Got Served, They Served Back, Now It's On
(15:15) On Your Marks
(18:42) Get My Agent On The Line
(19:57) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
(23:14) Copyright Confrontation
(23:47) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
(24:24) Unprompted Attention
(24:36) Get Involved
(28:12) Introducing
(28:40) State of AI Report 2026
(36:18) In Other AI News
(40:45) Autonomous Killer Robots
(42:11) Show Me the Money
(44:46) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
(47:58) Quiet Speculations
(48:54) Seb Krier Says Seb Krier Things
(58:07) The Quest for Sane Regulations
(58:24) Chip City
(01:02:39) The Week in Audio
(01:03:00) The Adolescence of Technology
(01:03:49) I Won't Stand To Be Disparaged
(01:08:31) Constitutional Conversation
(01:10:04) Rhetorical Innovation
(01:13:51) Don't Panic
(01:16:23) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
(01:17:41) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone
(01:18:48) The Lighter Side
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First published:
February 5th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AMLLKDzjohCNbrA6t/ai-154-claw-your-way-to-the-top
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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