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Can't we rename "Claws" -> "Personal assistants"? OpenClaw is a stupid name. Even "OpenSlave" would be a better fit.
by amelius 9mo ago
Can't we rename "Claws" -> "Personal assistants"?
OpenClaw is a stupid name. Even "OpenSlave" would be a better fit.
- refsys 9mo ago[dead]
- saaaaaam 9mo agoI 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.)
- amelius 9mo agoYou mean "grab things in the digital world?" Like virtual things?
- saaaaaam 9mo agoThings in the digital world, your bank balance, your sanity, passers-by around the neck. You name it!
- aydyn 9mo agoClaws are also potentially dangerous so it is a pretty apt analogy.
- saaaaaam 9mo agoThat’s also very apt yes.
- AnimalMuppet 9mo ago"OpenClanker"?
- thousand_nights 9mo agofr idg this obsession with lobsters/molting/claws/shrimps it feels like i'm going insane
- misweencoded 9mo ago[dead]
- copperx 9mo agoStupid name? sure, but there's no point in fighting it. Claws is a sticky name.
- Exoristos 9mo agoThese are all just transparent attempts to sound like "Claude", and if they're "sticky", that's the salient reason.
- notepad0x90 9mo agoHow about "Open Assistants"? "OpenAss" for short?
- mystifyingpoi 9mo agoI like that, this name tells you all about the security implications. Like, your user data could be penetrated.
- baq 9mo agoI like ‘claw’ because the s in it stands for security
- aidos 9mo agoSudden 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”.
- amelius 9mo agoOpenClown.
- gaigalas 9mo agoJust casual trivia: One of the contemporaneous competitors to jQuery was called "DOMAss". https://robertnyman.com/2007/03/02/domass-renamed-to-domassistant-with-added-prototypejquery-compatibility/ https://robertnyman.com/2007/03/02/domass-renamed-to-domassi...
- dragonwriter 9mo ago"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.
- esseph 9mo ago> OpenSlave" would be a better fit. Wow. Can we please not?
- wormpilled 9mo agoWow, just wow. Please don't kink-shame.
- kibwen 9mo agoLet'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.