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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The stock marekt has had quite a run. For instance, on March 9 of this year the S&P 500 closed at 676. This past Friday it closed at 1026 for a gain of 350 points or a staggering 51%. There has been quite a bit of discussion along the way about whether this is a sustainable rally with some fairly vocal folks (such a Roubini) saying that it isn’t and that there is a risk of the economy and the markets making a second big dip.
My worry isn’t so much that, but rather that we in fact managed to waste a perfectly good crisis. It seems that we had been given the opportunity of enough pressure to make some of the structural changes which we will badly need to deal with a much more global, hyper productive and ecologically unsustainable economy. Instead we stabilized the patient with a massive infusion of drugs (cash), while ignoring the true causes of the condition.
The health care reform rut seems to support my view. As soon as the immediate economic pressures appear reduced the political process is once again stuck. All of this feels to me like a startup where the investors decide to provide more money despite the fact that the product is not a fit for the market and management can’t agree on how to fix it.
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The stock marekt has had quite a run. For instance, on March 9 of this year the S&P 500 closed at 676. This past Friday it closed at 1026 for a gain of 350 points or a staggering 51%. There has been quite a bit of discussion along the way about whether this is a sustainable rally with some fairly vocal folks (such a Roubini) saying that it isn’t and that there is a risk of the economy and the markets making a second big dip.
My worry isn’t so much that, but rather that we in fact managed to waste a perfectly good crisis. It seems that we had been given the opportunity of enough pressure to make some of the structural changes which we will badly need to deal with a much more global, hyper productive and ecologically unsustainable economy. Instead we stabilized the patient with a massive infusion of drugs (cash), while ignoring the true causes of the condition.
The health care reform rut seems to support my view. As soon as the immediate economic pressures appear reduced the political process is once again stuck. All of this feels to me like a startup where the investors decide to provide more money despite the fact that the product is not a fit for the market and management can’t agree on how to fix it.
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