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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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
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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...
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As everyone knows by now Google released results that exceeded expectations for both revenues and earnings. Analysts have attributed Google’s strength to folks shifting advertising from display to keyword because it is more effective. But there has definitely been some slowdown in Google’s US growth. Google claims that this was due to its improvements in search quality.
Both of these arguments are related in a way that may put a larger crimp into Google’s growth in the long term. I am convinced that we will get more and more data around the effectiveness of display in influencing the likelihood of purchasing. At the same time more small advertisers will learn how to really measure their cost of conversion - many will find that their CPC campaigns are not actually as effective as they tought. In combination this will make display more competitive. Despite their acquisition of Doubleclick it is unlikely that Google can develop as strong a hold on display as on keyword and at the same time Google will have to continue to improve the quality of clicks.
So Q1 is definitely an inning won by Google, but the online advertising game is far from over.
As everyone knows by now Google released results that exceeded expectations for both revenues and earnings. Analysts have attributed Google’s strength to folks shifting advertising from display to keyword because it is more effective. But there has definitely been some slowdown in Google’s US growth. Google claims that this was due to its improvements in search quality.
Both of these arguments are related in a way that may put a larger crimp into Google’s growth in the long term. I am convinced that we will get more and more data around the effectiveness of display in influencing the likelihood of purchasing. At the same time more small advertisers will learn how to really measure their cost of conversion - many will find that their CPC campaigns are not actually as effective as they tought. In combination this will make display more competitive. Despite their acquisition of Doubleclick it is unlikely that Google can develop as strong a hold on display as on keyword and at the same time Google will have to continue to improve the quality of clicks.
So Q1 is definitely an inning won by Google, but the online advertising game is far from over.
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