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Why do we always have to come up with the stupidest names for things. Claw was a play on Claude, is all. Granted, I don’t have a better one at hand, but that it
by 9dev 7mo ago
Why do we always have to come up with the stupidest names for things. Claw was a play on Claude, is all. Granted, I don’t have a better one at hand, but that it has to be Claw of all things…
- keiferski 7mo agoThe real-world cyberpunk dystopia won’t come with cool company names like Arasaka, Sense/Net, or Ono-Sendai. Instead we get childlike names with lots of vowels and alliteration.
- m4rtink 7mo agoThe name still kinda reminds me of the self replicating murder drones from Screemers that would leep out from the ground and chop your head off. ;-)
- anewhnaccount2 7mo agoExcept Phillip K Dick calls the murder bots in Second Variety claws already so there's prior art right from the master of cyberpunk.
- esafak 7mo agoBetter to be a claw than a skinjob!
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago> I don’t have a better one at hand Perfect is the enemy of good. Claw is good enough. And perhaps there is utility to neologisms being silly. It conveys that the namespace is vacant.
- sunaookami 7mo agoThe name fits since it will claw all your personal data and files and send them somewhere else.
- jcgrillo 7mo agoMuch like we now say somebody has been "one-shotted", might we now say they have been "clawed"?
- jcgrillo 7mo agoI've been hoping one of them will be called Clod
- chrisweekly 7mo agoI appreciate the sentiment, but think a homophone would be too confusing.
- jcgrillo 7mo agoConfusion is only temporary until we're replaced by agentic giga nerd superintelligence /s
- mmasu 7mo agoI am reading a book called Accelerando (highly recommended), and there is a play on a lobsters collective uploaded to the cloud. Claws reminded me of that - not sure it was an intentional reference tho!