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…

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keiferski 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The 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.

	▲	anewhnaccount2 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Except Phillip K Dick calls the murder bots in Second Variety claws already so there's prior art right from the master of cyberpunk.
	▲	m4rtink 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The 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. ;-)

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mmasu 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I 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!

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JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> 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.

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sunaookami 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The name fits since it will claw all your personal data and files and send them somewhere else.

	▲	jcgrillo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Much like we now say somebody has been "one-shotted", might we now say they have been "clawed"?

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jcgrillo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been hoping one of them will be called Clod