my latest thinking on personal agents (from the pod w @davidpawlan + @joshelman): winners / losers - there's so much discussion of structural losers from personal agents (delta / amzn / comcast) and very little about the relative winners - presumably the long tail of merchants with great products and mediocre marketing benefit a lot - the idea that agents will perfectly mirror their principals is a fantasy imo... agents will have revealed non-rational preferences (i.e. for clean API surfaces) that are those of an alien mind - implied is a consumer research / wirecutter product where agents research and share their experiences with each other agent adoption - we should be giving agents laws and principles vs rules - fears of embarrassment will hold more people back than fears of privacy - agents need to be designed so some implicit preferences stay implicit, so their human can save face - group chats have an implicit social contract, and agents are only part of that contract if they're present from day one - agents can create a level of social indirection that actually brings people closer together (i.e. what tomo is doing with groups of humans who share aspirations) agent networks - if muse / instinct / wabi is consumer openclaw, what is consumer moltbook? - what economic exchanges can agents make on behalf of their humans? - is there a concept of "free" agents that operate within these networks of their own volition?