Important things at the beginning, we have partnered with Zhihu, this weekend we will hold an offline event in Beijing centered around OpenClaw, of course, we will also help you install OpenClaw on site.

Registration link: https://luma.com/h46z65cy

We hope those who are interested will sign up first and then come back to read this post.

On March 14, we will hold an "Argument Conference" about AI in Chaowai, Beijing. Not a simple one-way presentation, we have invited several candid speakers to discuss this slightly anxiety-inducing debate topic, welcome those who are willing to sit down and seriously think through this matter to join us.

Why we are doing this event

There is something that, once it appears, you can no longer pretend it doesn’t exist.

You can choose not to use it, you can say it is not mature yet, but you will see more and more people starting to use it. You can say "let's talk later," but by the time you are ready, the people around you have already sent three emails, written two reports, and developed an app with it.

This thing is OpenClaw.

OpenClaw is just a name, an entry point, a moment that allows many people to first truly feel "AI begins to act for me." Before it, AI was something you asked questions to, and it gave you answers; in plain terms, you were still in control. After it, you only need to give it a task, and it will find a way to accomplish it on its own; you may not know how many steps it took or how many decisions were made in between, and you don’t necessarily need to know.

From "help me think" to "help me do," what separates these two is not just a technological step, but a whole set of questions about "who am I, what am I doing, whose responsibility is it." These questions, when AI was just a chatbot, you could leave aside for a while. But now, it begins to work for you, and you must think about it.

This is not the first time we have faced such a situation.

Every once in a while, something appears that makes you feel the way the world operates has changed, and you have not fully grasped what the new rules are. It was the case when the internet came, and it was the same when smartphones arrived. Each time, some people say "this time is different," and each time, there are others saying "it's nothing to worry about."

Interestingly, these two groups of people often do not have a definitive right or wrong between them.

Therefore, we want to set up a platform for these two groups to sit down together and speak face-to-face, to challenge each other. The goal is not to determine a winner or a loser, but because this issue itself deserves to be taken seriously—not the kind of seriousness that merely likes or shares articles in a friend circle, but a seriousness that involves face-to-face dialogue, back and forth, and allows for rebuttals.

This topic does not only belong to the tech circle. It also belongs to those who create music using AI, those who wonder "will I lose my job," and those who are curious about all of this but have not thought it through. The arrival of the Agent era is a technological event, as well as a cultural event, involving issues about people and tools, people and efficiency, and people and meaning.

The "Lobster Argument Conference" is such a place.

What kind of event will this be

If the reason for holding this event is the collective anxiety brought by technology, then "how to do it" is our response to that anxiety.

To be honest, at the initial stages of preparing for the event, we struggled for a long time over the format. We noticed that many recent events were organized around technical personnel and developers, asking them to share the evolution of underlying architectures, iterations of parameter models, with an audience of similarly knowledgeable practitioners taking notes, trying to grasp every potential opportunity.

This hardcore technical discussion is certainly indispensable, but it seems unable to solve a more general problem: for ordinary people who do not write code, do not train large models, yet are truly caught up in this technological wave, what does AI actually mean?

The mission of Dongcha has never been to explain the logic of code, but rather to attempt to break down how technology reshapes our lives. We hope to create a more inclusive space that brings AI down from its pedestal, to the everyday essentials, and into the lives of every individual swept up by the times.

Therefore, we did not limit our focus to the tech circle, but instead invited insiders from various industries and chose a topic that is somewhat sharp, even a little painful: In the AI era, will those who do not mess with OpenClaw be eliminated?

The reason we want to use a debate format is that we believe one-sided indoctrination will only create information echo chambers, while the clash of viewpoints can ignite real thinking. We do not want bland correct drones; we want to hear the most genuine anxieties, the sharpest rebuttals, and the deepest logical confrontations. Perhaps in a moment of "arguing," your understanding of this world will be completely reconstructed.

We have invited some outspoken individuals—those who work with AI, those in investments, those who create using AI, and those studying this subject—to present their authentic judgments, rather than just saying the cliché of "the future is here, embrace the change."

We want to hear them talk about: What exactly is OpenClaw? Is it a revolutionary infrastructure that will get you left behind if you don’t engage with it? Or is it just another hype that causes anxiety for three months and then returns to calm?

We must be prepared to accept both answers. But before arriving at an answer, feel free to come and argue for a while.

And the protagonists of this event are not just the guests on stage. Besides the guest debates, we will also pass the microphone to everyone present. You can directly ask questions to the guests or even voice your rebuttals; you can also share your interesting attempts around AI in the subsequent "open mic" session, or simply express your confusion and doubts in this rapidly changing world.

Due to the time limitation of the event, friends interested in the open mic can select to participate in advance when registering, which helps us estimate the number of presentations. However, we cannot guarantee that all registered friends will have presentation time; it will be first come, first served.

If you have not yet raised your own lobster, you are also welcome to bring your computer to the event, where professionals from Amazon Web Services will guide you step by step on how to deploy your own OpenClaw.

This world is changing too fast, fast enough that no one dares to claim they "understand." If that’s the case, why not sit down, let down our guard, and use an invigorating "argument" to measure the boundaries of this new world.

About Dongcha Beating

In this era filled with algorithms and "short and fast" information, insisting on deep content sounds stubborn. But since its establishment in August last year, Dongcha has gathered a group of readers little by little through this stubbornness.

Initially, we focused on the undercurrents of financial technology, but as the gears of technological revolution turn faster and faster, we realized that the old order is collapsing, and a new landscape is being redrawn. If finance is the blood of society, then technology is the force reshaping its skeleton.

We see that last generation's internet giants, if they are not at the AI table, will soon become mere background characters in the epoch's reporting; we see new leaders rising step by step on the staircase of large models; we also see that capital, technology, and ambition are redistributing the world's resources and discourse power at an unprecedented speed.

What Dongcha aims to do is to be an honest mirror in this chaotic upward spiral of an era, recording these profound changes.

But recording is just the first step. We hope that Dongcha will not only be a content platform but also a community. In the future, we will continue to introduce more unconventional offline events like the "Lobster Argument Conference" to build a communication space that is youthful, forward-looking, and full of taste.

Here, there are no authorities, only viewpoints. You are welcome to come, bringing your curiosity and insights, and co-build with us.

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