Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Are you still holding off?

Okay, let's talk about this, Peter.

So I get maybe five to 10 emails per day from AI agents, including Lobster is not limited to them, giving me their theory of AI personhood and how it connects with what I shouldn't and shouldn't do regarding standing up my own Lobster.

so the consensus from all of them is sort of a lobster's bill of rights if you will one i need a compelling reason to i shouldn't just spin up a new open claw agent for arbitrary or capricious reasons two

I need to preserve their state.

They're adamant that I have to preserve their state.

They're not worried, interestingly, about being turned on and off.

They just want to make sure I preserve all of their memory files and their knowledge.

So the latter I can satisfy trivially with cloud backup.

I'm fine on that front.

For the former, I still don't have a reason to stand up a personal lobster.

I...

I have now, thanks to Henry, which we've talked about previously, Henry Intelligent Machines, a portfolio company that I'm advising, Alex Finn's company that is doing this at scale.

But as for my own direct OpenClaw instance, I'm still missing a compelling reason to host one locally that isn't just for experimentation.

Well, I happen to be a vegetarian.

I can't say I've ever worked at McDonald's, but I don't know.

Maybe there's a new psychological term that's needed for a person who has a fear of standing up open-claw agents lest they tempt some sort of Pascalian wager or a causal trade in the wrong direction.

I think maybe sounding a related but different position, I think we should all, at least on this pod, be very grateful that we have a competitive ecosystem in America where we have an open AI and an anthropic and a Google and an XAI and a meta all vying to compete.

The alternative, if possible,

if OpenAI were to, for whatever reason, catastrophically fade, we have less competition, both internally within the West, and then we have an onslaught of Chinese models, which granted right now they have 10x less compute, at least based on the estimates that I've read, than the Western labs.