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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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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On Friday afternoon I met with a class of architecture students who are researching the relationship between architecture and basic income. This strikes me as a super important issue to work on. One of my contentions in World After Capital is that with basic income the current trend towards everyone living in cities will be broken. As we are starting to need less land for agriculture (through improved yields and vertical farming), land outside of cities can be quite affordable. The trick will be to have housing that is also affordable.
One of the big goals of basic income is to increase individual freedom, so the idea here is not for the government to construct homes, but rather for people to either build and buy their own in the places they want to live. Part of this can be renovation of previously abandoned villages, but a significant part of this will likely be new construction. The challenge for architecture then would seem to be to create plans and sample buildings that can be shared widely and reproduced without royalties.
I have done some basic math and if the providers of capital are looking for low single digit percentage returns (eg in Europe there is capital that is looking for 2% annually), then you can afford to build quite a bit even if basic income is in the $800-1000 range per month. I am new to this particular aspect but excited to learn more. So I am looking for interesting projects around affordable housing, ideally with open source plans and support for off-grid or micro-grid implementation.
If you are aware of, or involved with, such a project, please let me know.
PS If you are waiting for more World After Capital edits, those will resume next week. I have spent the last two weekends reviewing analyst candidates for USV.
On Friday afternoon I met with a class of architecture students who are researching the relationship between architecture and basic income. This strikes me as a super important issue to work on. One of my contentions in World After Capital is that with basic income the current trend towards everyone living in cities will be broken. As we are starting to need less land for agriculture (through improved yields and vertical farming), land outside of cities can be quite affordable. The trick will be to have housing that is also affordable.
One of the big goals of basic income is to increase individual freedom, so the idea here is not for the government to construct homes, but rather for people to either build and buy their own in the places they want to live. Part of this can be renovation of previously abandoned villages, but a significant part of this will likely be new construction. The challenge for architecture then would seem to be to create plans and sample buildings that can be shared widely and reproduced without royalties.
I have done some basic math and if the providers of capital are looking for low single digit percentage returns (eg in Europe there is capital that is looking for 2% annually), then you can afford to build quite a bit even if basic income is in the $800-1000 range per month. I am new to this particular aspect but excited to learn more. So I am looking for interesting projects around affordable housing, ideally with open source plans and support for off-grid or micro-grid implementation.
If you are aware of, or involved with, such a project, please let me know.
PS If you are waiting for more World After Capital edits, those will resume next week. I have spent the last two weekends reviewing analyst candidates for USV.
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