Comment by amelius
4 days ago
Can't we rename "Claws" -> "Personal assistants"?
OpenClaw is a stupid name. Even "OpenSlave" would be a better fit.
4 days ago
Can't we rename "Claws" -> "Personal assistants"?
OpenClaw is a stupid name. Even "OpenSlave" would be a better fit.
How about "Open Assistants"? "OpenAss" for short?
I like that, this name tells you all about the security implications. Like, your user data could be penetrated.
I like ‘claw’ because the s in it stands for security
Sudden flashbacks to when I was trying to figure out why there was so much traffic to a blog post (15+ years ago).
I guess the internet was looking for something different to my “kick-[ass open]-source software”.
Just casual trivia:
One of the contemporaneous competitors to jQuery was called "DOMAss".
https://robertnyman.com/2007/03/02/domass-renamed-to-domassi...
OpenClown.
I think claws is a great name. They let the AI go grab things. They snap away and get stuff done. Claws are powerful and everything that has claws is cool.
Some of this may be slightly satirical.
(But I still think “claws” works better than “personal assistant” which anthropomorphises the technology too much.)
You mean "grab things in the digital world?" Like virtual things?
Things in the digital world, your bank balance, your sanity, passers-by around the neck. You name it!
Claws are also potentially dangerous so it is a pretty apt analogy.
That’s also very apt yes.
Stupid name? sure, but there's no point in fighting it. Claws is a sticky name.
These are all just transparent attempts to sound like "Claude", and if they're "sticky", that's the salient reason.
"Personal assistant” already has enough uses (both a narrower literal definition and a broader metaphorical definition applying to tools which includes but is not limited to what "claws" refers to) that using it probably makes communication more confusing rather than more clear. I don't think “claws” is a great name, but it does have the desirable trait of not already being heavily overloaded in a way that would promote confusion in the domain of application.
"OpenClanker"?
> OpenSlave" would be a better fit.
Wow. Can we please not?
Let's not dance around the issue.
It's clear that the reason that the VC class are so frothing-at-the-mouth at the potential of LLMs is because they see slavery as the ideal. They don't want employees. They want perfectly subservient, perfectly servile automatons. The whole point of the AI craze is that slavery is the goal.
Wow, just wow. Please don't kink-shame.
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fr idg this obsession with lobsters/molting/claws/shrimps it feels like i'm going insane