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...
As a graduate student at MIT, I studied a bunch of econometrics and one of my favorite instructors was Prof. Jerry Hausman (he of the Hausman test). Prof. Hausman would find a way in every lecture to somehow include his signature remark: “And that once again proves that life is unfair." I am not sure whether anything in particular prompted him to be saying this but I took it as a comment on the stochastic nature of the world: with randomness, it is inevitable that bad things will happen to good people and good things to bad people (and yes, I realize that in life good and bad are often not all that clear).
So I find myself reassured on those occasions when things work out and some degree of fairness seems to prevail. That is certainly true in the case of Osama Bin Laden. Yesterday, the folks involved in the search for Bin Laden finally caught their break and his streak of escapes ran out. No matter how one feels about the whole "war on terror” (and I am largely not a fan), with everything else that’s been going on, such as earthquakes and tornadoes, this is the kind of outcome that makes it a bit easier to put up with the inherent “Hausman unfairness” of life.
As a graduate student at MIT, I studied a bunch of econometrics and one of my favorite instructors was Prof. Jerry Hausman (he of the Hausman test). Prof. Hausman would find a way in every lecture to somehow include his signature remark: “And that once again proves that life is unfair." I am not sure whether anything in particular prompted him to be saying this but I took it as a comment on the stochastic nature of the world: with randomness, it is inevitable that bad things will happen to good people and good things to bad people (and yes, I realize that in life good and bad are often not all that clear).
So I find myself reassured on those occasions when things work out and some degree of fairness seems to prevail. That is certainly true in the case of Osama Bin Laden. Yesterday, the folks involved in the search for Bin Laden finally caught their break and his streak of escapes ran out. No matter how one feels about the whole "war on terror” (and I am largely not a fan), with everything else that’s been going on, such as earthquakes and tornadoes, this is the kind of outcome that makes it a bit easier to put up with the inherent “Hausman unfairness” of life.
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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