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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So I know that there are lots of problems with the Google book settlement. But yesterday I got to experience the power of digitized books firsthand and it was awesome to behold. My son had to do a project for school where he described five different professions from Colonial times. There were quite a few resources available on the web, but many of them lacked any kind of source attribution for their claims about what Colonial life was like. Now instead of going to the library, I pointed my son at http://books.google.com and it was amazing. For instance, one of the professions he was researching was “farmer.” Within minutes he found a book that had an incredibly well researched chapter about Colonial farming. Now here is the really cool part: the book was from 1916! I fully appreciate that the rights situation is a tricky one. But it would be a shame for humanity if this kind of access to knowledge would instead disappear behind paywalls and fractured into many different places. We have to find a solution that keeps open access available!
So I know that there are lots of problems with the Google book settlement. But yesterday I got to experience the power of digitized books firsthand and it was awesome to behold. My son had to do a project for school where he described five different professions from Colonial times. There were quite a few resources available on the web, but many of them lacked any kind of source attribution for their claims about what Colonial life was like. Now instead of going to the library, I pointed my son at http://books.google.com and it was amazing. For instance, one of the professions he was researching was “farmer.” Within minutes he found a book that had an incredibly well researched chapter about Colonial farming. Now here is the really cool part: the book was from 1916! I fully appreciate that the rights situation is a tricky one. But it would be a shame for humanity if this kind of access to knowledge would instead disappear behind paywalls and fractured into many different places. We have to find a solution that keeps open access available!
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