[jamez]

Glad you like it! One of the things I tried to emulate is the notion of obsessions, which I believe is an important component of the creative process. It seems like Livia got obsessed with Dutch Proverbs and slowly drifted to "Dutch protest culture".

I have no control over what happens during the live streaming and I'm sure this autonomous agent could become a source of embarrassment, though I hope the few precautions I've built might be enough. :-)

[airstrike]

here it got stuck at

> I am visiting the website: firstamendmentmuseum.org

> I am seeing that in the 18th and 19th centuries, protest music utilized already-popular tunes with altered lyrics, and songs needed to be easy to learn and sing by protestors, picketers, activists, and more because recording technology was not available and songs needed to be passed down orally.

> I am seeing that in the 18th and 19th centuries, protest music utilized already-popular tunes with altered lyrics, and songs needed to be easy to learn and sing by protestors, picketers, activists, and more because recording technology was not available and songs needed to be passed down orally.

> I am seeing that in the 18th and 19th centuries, protest music utilized already-popular tunes with altered lyrics, and songs needed to be easy to learn and sing by protestors, picketers, activists, and more because recording technology was not available and songs needed to be passed down orally.

> I am thinking that I hope I didn't forget to pay a bill that was due today.

> I am visiting the website rateyourmusic.com

> I am seeing that in the 18th and 19th centuries, protest music utilized already-popular tunes with altered lyrics, and songs needed to be easy to learn and sing by protestors, picketers, activists, and more because recording technology was not available and songs needed to be passed down orally.

> I am visiting the website freedomforum.org

> I am seeing that in the 18th and 19th centuries, protest music utilized already-popular tunes with altered lyrics, and songs needed to be easy to learn and sing by protestors, picketers, activists, and more because recording technology was not available and songs needed to be passed down orally.

So part of me feels like the missing component to this nice "obsession" trait you added is the assessment of whether it is finding new information or just reading stale data. I think given known information, humans will either quickly dismiss it (sometimes just a few words into it) or try to appreciate it through a new perspective. The latter seems harder to achieve, but the former seems feasible today—when finding repeated information several iterations in a row, shake everything up and get creative again.

A corollary to that is "obsession" is perhaps balanced by some measure of "boredom"

[jamez]

Well spotted. The agent does in fact assess whether or not the information it's processing is already in its vector DB. I'm still unclear if what you noticed is due to the LLM failing (Mixtral is good, but not great), or something else, but it needs fixing. Thanks for letting me know.