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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Earlier this week I blogged about Steven Johnson’s wonderful new book Future Perfect, which lays out the Peer Progressive agenda. I am therefore particularly excited about yesterday’s launch of AskPatents, a collaboration between the USPTO and our portfolio company StackExchange. Joel Spolsky has a great blog post up on the StackExchange blog explaining the origins of and motivation behind AskPatents.
The basic idea is to access the broadest network possible to find prior art. Instead of relying solely on underfunded and overworked examiners, anyone can now contribute prior art. This was made possible by a provision in the America Invents Act, which lets independent third parties contribute prior art.
It is exciting to see this system at work – someone already provided an interesting link to a highly relevant publication by Opera several days before Apple filed for their double-tap to zoom patent. I hope that AskPatents not only will help prevent more inane software patents from being granted but also to invalidate some of the existing ones out there.
Earlier this week I blogged about Steven Johnson’s wonderful new book Future Perfect, which lays out the Peer Progressive agenda. I am therefore particularly excited about yesterday’s launch of AskPatents, a collaboration between the USPTO and our portfolio company StackExchange. Joel Spolsky has a great blog post up on the StackExchange blog explaining the origins of and motivation behind AskPatents.
The basic idea is to access the broadest network possible to find prior art. Instead of relying solely on underfunded and overworked examiners, anyone can now contribute prior art. This was made possible by a provision in the America Invents Act, which lets independent third parties contribute prior art.
It is exciting to see this system at work – someone already provided an interesting link to a highly relevant publication by Opera several days before Apple filed for their double-tap to zoom patent. I hope that AskPatents not only will help prevent more inane software patents from being granted but also to invalidate some of the existing ones out there.
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