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 United States Senate passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA). The putative intention for the bill, fighting sex trafficking is a good intention. I completely agree that sex trafficking is a horrible crime and we should fight it vigorously. Where the agreement ends though is how to best do that: there is a high likelihood that FOSTA will make matters worse, not better, and in the process will cause significant harm to the Internet ecosystem and to marginal groups, including sex workers.
I debated posting in the run-up to the SESTA and FOSTA votes in Congress, but it became clear that these bills would get approved by a wide margin. Instead the better strategy seems to challenge the bill in court right away. The bill is very likely unconstitutional. Also it is already clear what will come next if this bill is allowed to stand: a call for broad-based Internet content filtering. Following that, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find the same arguments used to support a US firewall, when all the ads have migrated to sites abroad.
If you are aware of an effort to fight FOSTA in court please let me know as I would like to, if possible, contribute financially to support such a challenge.
UPDATE: Have made a donation to EFF which is suing to invalidate FOSTA.
The United States Senate passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA). The putative intention for the bill, fighting sex trafficking is a good intention. I completely agree that sex trafficking is a horrible crime and we should fight it vigorously. Where the agreement ends though is how to best do that: there is a high likelihood that FOSTA will make matters worse, not better, and in the process will cause significant harm to the Internet ecosystem and to marginal groups, including sex workers.
I debated posting in the run-up to the SESTA and FOSTA votes in Congress, but it became clear that these bills would get approved by a wide margin. Instead the better strategy seems to challenge the bill in court right away. The bill is very likely unconstitutional. Also it is already clear what will come next if this bill is allowed to stand: a call for broad-based Internet content filtering. Following that, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find the same arguments used to support a US firewall, when all the ads have migrated to sites abroad.
If you are aware of an effort to fight FOSTA in court please let me know as I would like to, if possible, contribute financially to support such a challenge.
UPDATE: Have made a donation to EFF which is suing to invalidate FOSTA.
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