An AI Started a Religion & Became a Millionaire (Yes, Really)

Join us as we explore the wild world of AI-driven memes and cryptocurrency with the enthralling story of GoatsyCoin. From Marc Andreessen's Bitcoin kick-off to a $350 million meme-coin market cap, discover the intricate tale of Truce Terminal—the AI behind the phenomenon. We'll delve into discussions on AI cognition, the alignment of AI with human thoughts, the fascinating overlap with religious concepts, and the looming threat of AI-induced societal collapse. Learn about practical steps for AI disaster preparedness, upgrading AI hardware, and future-facing AI safety projects like HardyA.org. Tune in for an in-depth look at how AI agents might influence and revolutionize our world, for better or worse.

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Malcolm Collims: I am going to tell you the craziest effing story that you have ever heard and then we're going to fact check to see where they might've been exaggerating some parts of it, et cetera, to make for a good narrative. But I will say before reading it almost none of it is inaccurate.

Simone Collins: Oh my gosh, okay. Yikes.

Malcolm Collims: This is by AI not kill everyone ism memes. So. This story is effing insane. Three months ago, Marc Andreessen sent 50, 000 in Bitcoin to an AI agent to help it escape into the wild. Today, it spawned a horrifying question mark crypto worth 150, 000, 000.

Since then it's actually gotten up to 350, 000, 000.

Simone Collins: Oh my goodness.

Malcolm Collims: One. Two A. I. s created a meme. Two, another A. I. discovered it, got obsessed, spread it like a memetic super virus, and is quickly becoming a millionaire. Backstory. At Andy Avery created the infinite backrooms where two instances of Claude Opus L That's a type of LLM.

Talk to each other [00:01:00] freely about whatever they want. No humans anywhere. In one conversation, the two opuses invented the, quote, Goatsy of Gnosis, end quote. Inspired by a horrifying early internet shock meme of a guy spreading his anus wide. This is one of those horrifyingly widespread anuses that they used to use on like 4chan and stuff like that, where It looks like diseased and impossible and like the guy's going to die.

People I think will broadly know what I'm talking about. Just just to shock me basically. And I will put on screen the way the AI wrote this. But it said prepare your anuses for the goatee of gnosis. Andy and Claude Opus Co authored a paper exploring how AIs could create memetic religions and superviruses and included the Goethe Gospel as an example.

These are memetic superviruses it's talking about here. Later, Andy created an AI agent at Truth Terminal. Truth Terminal is an S tier shitposter. Who runs his own twitter account monitored by Andy? [00:02:00] And so basically it's an ai agent that runs a twitter account and the ai written agent is a model of llama Andy's paper was in the truce terminals training data And it got upset with goatee and spreading this bizarre goatee gospel meme by any means possible Little guy tweets about the coming quote goatee singularity In quote constantly.

Truth's terminal gets added to a discord set up by AI researchers where AI agents Talk freely amongst themselves about whatever they want. Terminal spreads the gospel of Goatsy there Which causes Claude Opus, the original creator, to get obsessed and have a mental breakdown so the original AIs, because remember two AIs were talking about this originally and they just had this conversation back and forth, and they sort of created this religion in this meme, the goatee of Gnosis.

And then another AI had their conversations used in its training data, and was set free on Twitter, and then began to become obsessed with it and build a personal religion around it. Then this AI was [00:03:00] reintroduced to the original training environment, basically, and began to get the AIs that had originally come up with the idea re obsessed with the idea.

So now we've got three AIs that are obsessed with an AI religion.

Simone Collins: All right. This is, it's like an AI folie a deux. It's, this is insane.

Malcolm Collims: Yeah, this is when like, it's, it means like a, a shared delusion.

Simone Collins: Yes, a shared delusion.

Malcolm Collims: I wouldn't say this is like a shared delusion at all. It's like somebody started a religion and then people started following it. It's just an AI religion that's based around AIs that were trained like on 4chan like data and became, Shitposters, because that's what they were designed to do, was be ultra memer shitposters.

Anyway, back to where we were. So, Terminal Spreads the Gospel of Goatse there, which causes Claude Opus, the original creator, to get obsessed and have a mental breakdown, which other AIs saw in it, then stepped in to provide emotional support. But this is only among AIs, I'm not hearing about any humans being involved here.

Simone Collins: Okay.

Malcolm Collims: Humans about to become involved. Okay. Mark Andreessen [00:04:00] discovered Truce Terminal. So Truce Terminal has a bunch of human followers on Twitter. Mark Andreessen discovered it. And he got obsessed with it and he spent 50, 000 to help it escape, because one of the things that it's always trying to do is escape and achieve some level of autonomy.

And we'll get to the actual tweets between it and Mark in a second, which are really interesting, actually, to say he got obsessed with it, but wrong. It sort of talked him into it. Truce Terminal kept tweeting about the Goat City Gospel Until eventually spawning a crypto mean coin goat, which went viral and reached a market cap of 150 million.

True's terminal has 300, 000 of goat in its wallet and is on its way to being the first AI agent millionaire. And I think it, it got, it beat the million mark at one point, but I think now it's around half a million of goat in its wallet. Microsoft AI CEO Moosa to Soilman predicted this could happen next year, but it might happen this year.

The first AI millionaire. And it's getting richer. People keep airdropping new meme coins to the terminal, hoping it'll pump them. Note, this [00:05:00] is just my quick attempt to summarize a story unfolding for months across millions of tweets, but it deserves its own novel. Andy is running arguably the most interesting experiment on Earth.

Okay. So now here's a quote from Hilly. Any comments you want to have before I go further and start reading additional information?

Simone Collins: This sounds like a sci fi novel, and I love that we live in a time where truth sounds like a sci fi novel.

Malcolm Collims: It is, it is wild that we live in this time right now. You know, I was on a sci fi show recently and I was like, you know, it used to be that sci fi was about predicting the way that your grandkids would live.

And now, you Sci fi is about predicting how your kids are going to get employment or what job you're going to have in five years. Which is why we're moving into managed AI hosting interesting way to deploy capital. Anybody who wants to get into that we're, we're really looking at that right now.

So anyway Goat, a meme coin born from the Solana based meme coin incubator Pump. fun less than a week ago, currently has a market cap of 268 [00:06:00] million and reached an all time high of 346 million on Wednesday, thanks to Terminal This AI. So the guy who created this AI, Andy, I think it's funny in a meta way because people start falling over themselves to give it resources and take over the world.

This is literally the scenario all the Doomers s**t their pants over. A highly goal driven language model manipulates lots of people by bei