Lex Fridman: uncertainty

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…And then so that I had the whole idea of like, you know, maybe we should also create a, a soul document that includes how I, I want to, like work with AI or, like with my agent. You could, you could totally do that just in agents.md, you know? But I, I just found it, it to be a nice touch. And it’s like, well, yeah, some of those core values are in the soul. And then I, I also made it so that the agent is allowed to modify the soul if they choose so, with the one condition that I wanna know. I mean, I would know anyhow because I see, I see tool calls and stuff. But also the naming of it, soul.md. Soul. You know? There’s a… Man, words matter, and like, the framing matters, and the humor and the lightness matters, and the profundity matters, and the compassion, and the empathy, and the camaraderie, all that matter. I don’t know what it is. You mentioned, like, Microsoft. Like, there’s certain companies and approaches th- that can just suffocate the spirit of the thing. I don’t know what that is. But it’s certainly true that OpenClaw has that fun instilled in it. It was fun because up until late December, it was not even easy to create your own agent. I, I built all of that, but my files were mine. I didn’t wanna share my soul. And if people would just check it out, they would have to do a few steps manually, and the agent would just be very bare-bones, very dry. And I, I made it simpler, I created the whole template files as codecs, but whatever came out was still very dry. And then I asked my agent, “You see these files? Recreate it bread. Infuse it with your personality.”…

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