Problem
cultural-references.md covers mythology, literature, and science as naming sources but doesn't mention cultural references specifically relevant to AI products. AI naming can draw from rich cultural territory:
AI-relevant cultural domains to add
Science fiction AI characters
Rich source material — but saturation varies:
- Oversaturated: HAL, Skynet, Terminator, Matrix — overused, carry negative "AI will kill us" connotations
- Moderately used: JARVIS (Iron Man), Data (Star Trek), Samantha (Her)
- Underexplored: Wintermute (Neuromancer), Jane (Ender's Game), Cortana (Halo — already taken by Microsoft), Mike (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Information theory / computing pioneers
- Claude Shannon, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, John von Neumann
- Already used: Claude (Anthropic), Ada (various), Turing (various)
- Less used: Shannon, Babbage, Hopper, Dijkstra, Knuth
Mythology of knowledge/wisdom
- Athena/Minerva — goddess of wisdom (somewhat saturated)
- Thoth — Egyptian god of writing and knowledge (underused)
- Saraswati — Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts (underused in tech)
- Odin — traded an eye for wisdom (specific sacrifice-for-knowledge metaphor)
- Prometheus — brought knowledge to humanity (already used for monitoring)
Cognitive science concepts
- Gestalt, schema, heuristic, qualia, metacognition — scientific terms with naming potential
- Less saturated than mythology because they're less obviously "cool"
Before submitting
Read CONTRIBUTING.md and run `markdownlint-cli2 '**/*.md'` before pushing.
Scope
One new subsection. Small PR.
Problem
cultural-references.md covers mythology, literature, and science as naming sources but doesn't mention cultural references specifically relevant to AI products. AI naming can draw from rich cultural territory:
AI-relevant cultural domains to add
Science fiction AI characters
Rich source material — but saturation varies:
Information theory / computing pioneers
Mythology of knowledge/wisdom
Cognitive science concepts
Before submitting
Read CONTRIBUTING.md and run `markdownlint-cli2 '**/*.md'` before pushing.
Scope
One new subsection. Small PR.