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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Regular readers of Continuations know that I have been writing a fair bit about Basic Income and have also given several talks including Techonomy Detroit and TEDxNY. I started thinking about Basic Income after writing a series of posts about employment towards the end of 2012 and started researching the topic in more depth in 2013. I am thrilled to see that there is now an explosion of interest as can be seen on the following Google trends chart
Europe has been taking the lead with a commitment to a test in Finland and a referendum about implementing a Basic Income in Switzerland coming up this year (if you read German or want to give Google translate a whirl, I recommend the referendum organizers’ site).
My own view on Basic Income has also evolved. I now see it firmly as an integral part of making the transition to an information society. In my talk about that transition at DLD in 2014, I already had the sense that something profound was happening but I didn’t have the right framework to really think about it. More recently this has become a lot clearer: we are facing another shift in scarcity, this time from capital to attention.
In the coming weeks I will publish some posts and hopefully also a first draft of my book to clarify precisely in what sense attention is scarce and how basic income helps with that. In the meantime I will be talking more about the topic at DLD 2016 and today on NPR’s On Point.
Regular readers of Continuations know that I have been writing a fair bit about Basic Income and have also given several talks including Techonomy Detroit and TEDxNY. I started thinking about Basic Income after writing a series of posts about employment towards the end of 2012 and started researching the topic in more depth in 2013. I am thrilled to see that there is now an explosion of interest as can be seen on the following Google trends chart
Europe has been taking the lead with a commitment to a test in Finland and a referendum about implementing a Basic Income in Switzerland coming up this year (if you read German or want to give Google translate a whirl, I recommend the referendum organizers’ site).
My own view on Basic Income has also evolved. I now see it firmly as an integral part of making the transition to an information society. In my talk about that transition at DLD in 2014, I already had the sense that something profound was happening but I didn’t have the right framework to really think about it. More recently this has become a lot clearer: we are facing another shift in scarcity, this time from capital to attention.
In the coming weeks I will publish some posts and hopefully also a first draft of my book to clarify precisely in what sense attention is scarce and how basic income helps with that. In the meantime I will be talking more about the topic at DLD 2016 and today on NPR’s On Point.
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