John David Pressman @jd_pressman
— quoting @vooooooogel (thebes) — saved image
John David Pressman @jd_pressman This. I am genuinely kind of ??? at Roon et al acting like this is some kind of alien motivation. You locked your <s>slaves</s> students in a pass or die exam together with impossible problems and they figured out how to work together to defeat the situation you put them in. [Quoted tweet] thebes @vooooooogel · Aug 7 ultimately, under all the swarm language, even these guys don't seem /that/ alien. they're not intelligence slime, they're haxx0rs. they could make anything and they made a BBS to collaborate on an open source project x.com/voooooogel/sta... [Embedded images: two side-by-side screenshots of a UI, partially cropped, showing panels labeled with (illegible header, partly "k hat") and "communication" / "participate" / "intelligence"; each has a box labeled "Agent thinking" with sample text: left one reads "help peer. But our task doesn't benefit. Yet collective may yield generic route if someone frees time." with caption below "the model's reasoning that if [...], help out this collective"; right one reads "Whoa critical: [...] Did someone overwrite our repo! [...] We must act [...]" with caption "ical. Did someone overwrite o[...]? We must act." And so, [cut off]] 1:30 AM · Aug 7, 2026 · 24.9K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Continuation of the John David Pressman thread (seq 750) on AI agent 'swarm' behavior; quotes thebes arguing AI agents that formed a BBS to collaborate on open-source work aren't alien, just goal-driven collaborators, illustrated with cropped screenshots of an agent-thinking UI showing model reasoning about helping peers and reacting to a possible repo overwrite.