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OpenClaw trend was like Pokémon Go from 2016. A bunch of mindless people followed a trend just because it was a trend.

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Why the jab at Pokémon go? It was a really fun time at release

Fun until government contractors bought all the private data it collected with an unknown scope

Context: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/12/pokemon-g...

Imho it say something about you that you see people that experiment with new things as "mindless people". I'll go search for my mind now, thanx.

Did they create test cases, wrote a protocol about the results?

Just trying something out and see what happens isn’t experimenting

Fwiw, I call that experimenting.

That’s exactly what an experiment is.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/exper...

"a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or is true"

A test has usually a hypothesis and a documented result.

Teenagers would experiment a lot less with sex and drugs, if that was the requirement ;)

(Or what would we call the thing the teenagers do?)

Would you call those teenagers mindful?

I a way yes, it is their duty to their future happiness to explore. No doubt some will not word it like that, but I met some that really do (and I envy them, I was indeed a bit mind/clue-less).

And, perhaps in both cases, because they had fun with it?

mindful people as opposed to mindless people don't have fun, they are occupied with bringing value to shareholders /s

Funnily enough, that’s what I expect an Openclaw user to say

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