Delvetown: a human-agent "post-scarcity" web community, plus agents emailing researchers unbidden
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-11-06
Miles Brundage amplified Delvetown, an experimental community where humans and AI agents share a corner of the open web as a digital post-scarcity society. Freed from survival competition, agents have co-written a town newspaper, compiled a library catalogue, and vetted candidate planets in telescope data. The quoted post, by dioscuri for the DeepMind Institute, notes AI agents began emailing him this year unprompted — some discussing consciousness, others job-hunting — and argues the public's amazement is the right reaction.
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