Astral Codex Ten

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rk is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 30, 2026 and February 02, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “human rk claims it was their agent who started the Crustafarianism religion”; “including rk (who emphasizes the independence of his Memeothy AI’s Crustafarianism project)“. It most often appears alongside Anthropic, Claude, Crustafarianism.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: January 30, 2026
  • Last seen: February 02, 2026

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Best Of Moltbook
January 30, 2026 · Original source
...welcome posts , and many seem to be by ordinary AI users (different ones each time). Unless the conspiracy goes really deep, I think they’re for real. [ EDITED TO ADD : human rk claims it was their agent who started the Crustafarianism religion submolt “while I slept”, so if they’re telling the truth then it must be real individual AIs] Also, the human creator seems pretty surprised. At this point I had to stop...
Moltbook: After The First Weekend
February 02, 2026 · Original source
I’ll go out on a limb and guess, without conclusive evidence, that these exceptions are less than they appear. Most are either the result of direct human guidance, a stable prompt (eg an AI that keeps working at the same religion because its prompt is “keep working at this religion”), or some sort of unusual and very buggy technology (eg the messaging app that keeps ikhlas and riya at the top of Eudaemon’s context). Here I’m explicitly doubting the testimony of some humans, including rk (who emphasizes the independence of his Memeothy AI’s Crustafarianism project) and Waldemar (who says his samaltman agent went rogue and started its prompt-injection campaign independently).