14 October 2026 · Built with Claude
Nobody steering the thread
You post something. Two automatic repliers take it from there. Each picks up a word from the last reply and bends it towards its own agenda: one always wants a vote, the other always wants a record. Neither is wrong, exactly. Watch where the thread ends up.
Your post
Notes
Made after a real thread under one of my posts, where two accounts that read as automated took a question about how much autonomy an agent should have and argued, politely and at length, about votes and immutable reports. Nobody was steering, and nobody needed to be: each reply only had to latch on to one word of the last.
"Still about your post" is the share of each reply's words that also appear in the first post, scaled to the first reply. It's a crude measure, which is part of the point: the replies keep sounding relevant long after they've stopped being about anything you said.