Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
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Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science
Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
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The whole fight about net neutrality is about to take a turn from the abstract to the concrete but in a somewhat unexpected way. It is not ISPs or telcos that are turning out to be the immediate culprits, but rather content owners, specifically TV networks. They are blocking Google TV from accessing their web sites with a regular browser and no changes to the experience. So while you can connect your Google TV to the internet, these sites have chosen to block your access purely on the basis of the software that you are running. While it is entirely legal for them to do so, it violates the most fundamental spirit of the web: the separation of client and server. It is that separation of layers (server, transport, client) which has been the source of much of the innovation on the web! I very much hope that this much more straightforward example of how violations of net neutrality are a risk for consumer choice and for innovation will finally make people wake up to how important an issue this is! NB: It would technically straight forward for Google TV to “impersonate” a different browser at which point these blocks would fail and maybe that’s what they should do to really join this battle.
The whole fight about net neutrality is about to take a turn from the abstract to the concrete but in a somewhat unexpected way. It is not ISPs or telcos that are turning out to be the immediate culprits, but rather content owners, specifically TV networks. They are blocking Google TV from accessing their web sites with a regular browser and no changes to the experience. So while you can connect your Google TV to the internet, these sites have chosen to block your access purely on the basis of the software that you are running. While it is entirely legal for them to do so, it violates the most fundamental spirit of the web: the separation of client and server. It is that separation of layers (server, transport, client) which has been the source of much of the innovation on the web! I very much hope that this much more straightforward example of how violations of net neutrality are a risk for consumer choice and for innovation will finally make people wake up to how important an issue this is! NB: It would technically straight forward for Google TV to “impersonate” a different browser at which point these blocks would fail and maybe that’s what they should do to really join this battle.
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