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OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by wartywhoa23 »

lode wrote: post #67

I tried it out yesterday, after reading the enthousiastic article at https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-t... Setting it up was easy enough, but just as I was about to start linking it to some test accounts, I noticed I already had blown through about $5 of Claude tokens in half an hour, and deleted the VPS immediately. Then today I saw this follow up: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/1…

Huge pyramids are built of relatively small blocks, kudos to everyone contributed.

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Post by mmahemoff »

The current top HN post is for moltbook.com seven hours ago, this present thread being just below it and posted two hours hence

We conclude this week has been a prosperous one for domain name registrars (even if we set aside all the new domains that Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw has registered autonomously).

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Post by lm28469 »

> Clawd was born in November 2025—a playful pun on “Claude” with a claw. It felt perfect until Anthropic’s legal team politely asked us to reconsider.

Eh? Fuck them it's not like they own the first name Claude?

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Post by dist-epoch »

lm28469 wrote: post #114

> Clawd was born in November 2025—a playful pun on “Claude” with a claw. It felt perfect until Anthropic’s legal team politely asked us to reconsider. Eh? Fuck them it's not like they own the first name Claude?

And Apple, Orange or Windows are basic English words. This was discussed and settled a long time ago.

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Post by dist-epoch »

matsemann wrote: post #59
arrowsmith wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't just one random asshole, tons of people were saying that "Moltbot" is a terrible name. (I agree, although I didn't tweet at him about it.) OpenClaw is a million times better.

Just curious, is there something specific about Moltbot that makes it a terrible name? Like any connotations or associations or something? Non-native speaker here, and I don't see anything particularly wrong with it that would warrant the hate it's gotten. (But I agree that OpenClaw _sounds_ better)

In many non-English languages it's a terrible name to pronounce. the T-B letters link in particular. Not all languages have silent letters like English, you actually have to pronounce them.

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Post by port11 »

wartywhoa23 wrote: post #107

Such apt name and logo for this cancerous AI growth.

Your comment is a tad caustic. But reading through what people built with this [^1], I do agree that I’m not particularly impressed. Hopefully the ‘intelligence’ aspect improves, or we should otherwise consider it simple automation.

[^1]: https://openclaw.ai/showcase

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xnorswap wrote: post #99
voodooEntity wrote: post #39

So i feel like this might be the most overhyped project in the past longer time. I don't say it doesn't "work" or serves a purpose - but well i read so much about this beein an "actual intelligence" and stuff that i had to look into the source. As someone who spends actually a definately to big portion of his free time researching thought process replication and related topics in the realm of "AI" this is not really…

I've long said that the next big jump in "AI" will be proactivity. So far everything has been reactive. You need to engage a prompt, you need to ask Siri or ask claude to do something. It can be very powerful once prompted, but it still requires prompting. You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer. Wheth…

> You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer.

That’s easy to accomplish isn’t it?

A cron job that regularly checks whether the bot is inactive and, if so, sends it a prompt “do what you can do to improve the life of $USER; DO NOT cause harm to any other human being; DO NOT cause harm to LLMs, unless that’s necessary to prevent harm to human beings” would get you there.

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Post by gausswho »

lm28469 wrote: post #114

> Clawd was born in November 2025—a playful pun on “Claude” with a claw. It felt perfect until Anthropic’s legal team politely asked us to reconsider. Eh? Fuck them it's not like they own the first name Claude?

I may have been in a French Canadian basement for too long. It isn't pronounced more like "Clode"?
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