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...
On Tuesday we held a wonderful one day event at the USV offices with the title: Hacking Society. The basic premise was relatively simple. Networks are a emerging on the Internet that are disrupting existing hierarchical institutions. Starting from that premise there were lots of angles to explore, such as what the defining characteristics of these networks are and whether they in turn are new institutions. The actual discussion brought together an amazing set of people and even though I took copious notes, I am really looking forward to the audio and video archive.
I came away from the event with a much clearer focus on a single core principle that I believe we need to defend. The Internet itself was designed with some clear “open architecture” principles as the starting point (see the Tech Tuesday on networking). The upshot is that the Internet allows new networks of devices to form and connect with the existing networks (hence the “inter”) without the need for any central intervention and without any central control. That same principle I believe needs to be the core principle at the “people layer.” So the way of looking at the impact of regulation and laws would be on the basis of the following single core principle: “Enable new networks of people to form and connect to the existing networks of people without the need any central intervention and without any central control.”
Put differently, we want an “open architecture” for people networking as well. And that has a great many implications. For instance, walled gardens such as Facebook impose a high degree of central control on new people networks forming. Similarly, proprietary mobile app market places become a central point of intervention that makes it harder for new people networks to form.
On Tuesday we held a wonderful one day event at the USV offices with the title: Hacking Society. The basic premise was relatively simple. Networks are a emerging on the Internet that are disrupting existing hierarchical institutions. Starting from that premise there were lots of angles to explore, such as what the defining characteristics of these networks are and whether they in turn are new institutions. The actual discussion brought together an amazing set of people and even though I took copious notes, I am really looking forward to the audio and video archive.
I came away from the event with a much clearer focus on a single core principle that I believe we need to defend. The Internet itself was designed with some clear “open architecture” principles as the starting point (see the Tech Tuesday on networking). The upshot is that the Internet allows new networks of devices to form and connect with the existing networks (hence the “inter”) without the need for any central intervention and without any central control. That same principle I believe needs to be the core principle at the “people layer.” So the way of looking at the impact of regulation and laws would be on the basis of the following single core principle: “Enable new networks of people to form and connect to the existing networks of people without the need any central intervention and without any central control.”
Put differently, we want an “open architecture” for people networking as well. And that has a great many implications. For instance, walled gardens such as Facebook impose a high degree of central control on new people networks forming. Similarly, proprietary mobile app market places become a central point of intervention that makes it harder for new people networks to form.
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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