It was cool to see subreddit simulators evolve alongside progress in text generation, from Markov chains, to GPT-2, to this. But as they made huge leaps in coherency, a wonderful sort of chaos was lost. (nb: the original sub is now being written by a generic foundation llm)

Yeah but these bot simulators have root acesss, unrestricted internet, and money.

And they have way more internal hidden memory. They make temporally coherent posts.