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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Apologies up front for no links as I am typing this on the train to the city. I am curious to find out whether anyone else thinks that 2011 will be the year that inflation returns (and possibly with a vengeance). Both based on newspaper reports and talking to friends who do business in China it seems that prices there are going up quickly. Given how much we import that would suggest we will see some price increases here. There is also the distinct possibility of a significant increase in food prices in the US due to crop failures here and abroad (eg frost in Florida). The WSJ is reporting today that some futures prices are up 50 percent or more (soybeans, wheat, corn).
At the same time it appears that the Fed’s QE2 program is not succeeding at keeping rates down, despite massive purchases of government securities. These purchases are effectively printing new money as long as one believes that they will be difficult to reverse (in other words: easier for the Fed to buy massively than to sell massively).
Put together with the already precarious finances at the state and federal levels, this would seem to set us up for a potentially nasty period due to a supply shock. Or does all of this still get outweighed by the overall lackluster consumer demand and the high level of unemployment?
Apologies up front for no links as I am typing this on the train to the city. I am curious to find out whether anyone else thinks that 2011 will be the year that inflation returns (and possibly with a vengeance). Both based on newspaper reports and talking to friends who do business in China it seems that prices there are going up quickly. Given how much we import that would suggest we will see some price increases here. There is also the distinct possibility of a significant increase in food prices in the US due to crop failures here and abroad (eg frost in Florida). The WSJ is reporting today that some futures prices are up 50 percent or more (soybeans, wheat, corn).
At the same time it appears that the Fed’s QE2 program is not succeeding at keeping rates down, despite massive purchases of government securities. These purchases are effectively printing new money as long as one believes that they will be difficult to reverse (in other words: easier for the Fed to buy massively than to sell massively).
Put together with the already precarious finances at the state and federal levels, this would seem to set us up for a potentially nasty period due to a supply shock. Or does all of this still get outweighed by the overall lackluster consumer demand and the high level of unemployment?
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