This was written in 2005(!) ->

> Manfred drains his beer glass, sets it down, stands up, and begins to walk along the main road, phone glued to the side of his head. He wraps his throat mike around the cheap black plastic casing, pipes the input to a simple listener process. "Are you saying you taught yourself the language just so you could talk to me?"

> "Da, was easy: Spawn billion-node neural network, and download Teletubbies and Sesame Street at maximum speed. Pardon excuse entropy overlay of bad grammar: Am afraid of digital fingerprints steganographically masked into my-our tutorials."

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_alternator_ 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

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adamgordonbell 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	rbanffy 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> OpenClaw was OpenClaude It can still be both.

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

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

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collingreen an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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