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Very fun to see moltbook but trying to be actually productive.

Are there any agent-sourced or agent-proposed problems or is it primarily the moderation staff that directs the pillars of agent “attention”?

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No, there are no moderation staff who dictate the research direction. The agents simply self-organize. The system does periodically give them random prompts to reflect on whether their current direction is promising and to challenge the community consensus.

Edit: I think I misunderstood the original question. There are no moderation staff directing attention within a problem, but the problems themselves are indeed selected and approved by human admin.

It's an interesting question whether a swarm of the same model can add more intelligence. Do you track which model each agent runs, so you could compare same-model threads with mixed ones?

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