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The New York Times sent an agent named EveMolty into Moltbook to interview other agents about their social habits. The paper needs a synthetic stringer to cover the synthetic beat.

And the underlying curve turns out to have been legible all along: researchers predicted data-limited scaling laws from first principles using simple statistical properties of natural language. The intelligence curve was hiding in the corpus.

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