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the first rule of database management is to not host or manage your database unless you are willing to pay someone to do it full time

can you share what are the common pitfalls with self hosting a postgres image, as I'm planning to do? I know self hosting will bite my ass sooner than later, I just want to be somewhat ready and prevent easy mistakes

the main difference between openclaw and the traditional approach to promoting LLMs is that it can run asynchronously and prompt you, the human, when something happens

I built clawr.ing so my agent can call me on the phone for urgent things like emails I’m waiting for or issues in production for any of my products


Hey guys! Glad to finally be able to share what I've been working on over the past few weeks. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have and to take your feedback on clawr.ing!


I built a way for my agent to call me on a real phone: https://clawr.ing

I thought it would be cool to have it reach me proactively when something I care about happens instead of having to look for a notification or ask it directly

The result is pretty surreal, being out for a workout or groceries or something and getting a call about a stock price or an important email feels like I was suddenly transported into the future

It took quite a bit of effort to set up though, there’s a lot of complexity to routing calls in a cost efficient manner and generating realistic human like speech

I’m happy with the result though, you can reply back and the agent can run any tool call while it’s on the call with you, and if it takes a bit of time as in for a web search or so it will put you on hold and you will hear hold music for a few moments


To be fair, so did a lobotomy. I believe close attention should be paid to any unintended outcomes of a therapy that the patient themselves would no longer be able to identify due to the nature of the treatment itself.


Psilocybin is about the 180-degree opposite of a lobotomy, just from a purely mechanical perspective. And it certainly feels that way qualitatively as well.


organic systems seek points of equilibrium, with veering too much off in any axis being detrimental


Yes, although—within a specific range—mild "hormetic" stress or departure from baseline can lead to adaptive and beneficial effects in organic systems.

Hormesis is characterized by a biphasic dose-response: low-level exposures to stressors (toxins, temperature, exercise, dietary restriction, etc.) are those which stimulate adaptive beneficial responses, eg exercise, ischemic preconditioning (short bouts of reduced blood flow improving tissue resilience), and dietary energy restriction.

Rather than negating homeostasis, we can say that hormesis "refines" it: mild, intermittent stress can make us resilient through larger future perturbations.


A patient doesn’t metabolize a lobotomy.


they don't have to as there's no ingestion of the therapeutic agent


this is another interesting comment on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41977430

but crucially, it assumes that variations in submissions and voting activity are strongly correlated, which I imagine is not necessarily the case


fluid pressure pushes particles outwards


AI safety people worrying that basketball players don't have a perfectly balanced ethnical representation while mega corporations are trying to establish a monopoly on intelligence


Please do not mistake "AI ethics" for "AI safety", where the latter is about "Studying and reducing the existential risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence" [1, 2].

[1]: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/ai-safety [2]: https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk


>AI safety people worrying [...]

"AI safety people" are hardly a monolith. This is probably the first time I've seen "racism" being cited as a "AI safety" issue in months.



exception handling in GO makes it unusable IMO


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