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This was a genetically modified space lobster talking to Mangred, right? I haven't verified but I've been assuming that the lobster mascot for OpenClaw was a reference to Accelerando.

[adamgordonbell]

I think its more a fun coincidence. OpenClaw was OpenClaude was it not, but had to change name.

When I'm dictating to Claude Code, whisper often outputs 'cloud code' or 'clawed code' for my 'Claude Code.' So I ahd assumed he just took a homonym.

[chatmasta]

It was ClawdBot first.

[rbanffy]

> OpenClaw was OpenClaude

It can still be both.

[jaggederest]

Not an actual meatspace genetically modified space lobster, it was a neural network based on genetically modified lobsters uploaded to spacecraft that had achieved sentience and autonomy after it hacked its self-modification prevention code.

If OpenClaw was an Accelerando reference that's an incredibly deep cut and super cool imo

[Muromec]

Unlikely, as none of the AI hype has any shade of being cool.

[jaggederest]

That's true, perhaps that's the aphorism here: "Never attribute to coolness that which could be attributed to being slop"

[collingreen]

Earth lobsters with their neurons fully mapped, given freedom by running them virtually and sending them into space, if I recall correctly.

Not a huge distinction but the origin as regular lobsters feels important to the transhumanism (transcrustaceanism?) theme