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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So I must be missing something big here, because it seems that this should not be an issue in 2009. Susan is fully on a Mac using the iCal app. When she sends me an invite, it shows up in Outlook on my end sort of looking like one, but when I click on the attached .ics file, the Accept, Reject, etc buttons are greyed out (for those of you wanting details, this is Outlook 2007, Service Pack 2 running under Parallels on a Mac).
I did a bunch of searching around without finding an easy solution. There are a bunch of fairly obscure posts about hacking the iCal app to fix this. I have also figured out the following insanely-ridiculous-but-still-slightly-better-than-manual-reentry way of getting the info into my calendar: launch IE under parallels and use OWA (outlook web access) to get to the message. Then click on the .ics file while having Outlook running. Choose “Open” in the file dialog box and voila the full accept and reject dialog is there.
My BlackBerry also does not like the invites generated by iCal. They arrive with two attachments. One is an html file which is empty, the other is shown as a “msg” file, which my BlackBerry refuses to open.
It’s not even that the underlying standards are in any way new. iCalendar is RFC 2445 from 1998. Maybe the standard allows for enough leeway for different implementations not to interoperate. Still does not seem like the kind of thing that should be broken in 2009!
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So I must be missing something big here, because it seems that this should not be an issue in 2009. Susan is fully on a Mac using the iCal app. When she sends me an invite, it shows up in Outlook on my end sort of looking like one, but when I click on the attached .ics file, the Accept, Reject, etc buttons are greyed out (for those of you wanting details, this is Outlook 2007, Service Pack 2 running under Parallels on a Mac).
I did a bunch of searching around without finding an easy solution. There are a bunch of fairly obscure posts about hacking the iCal app to fix this. I have also figured out the following insanely-ridiculous-but-still-slightly-better-than-manual-reentry way of getting the info into my calendar: launch IE under parallels and use OWA (outlook web access) to get to the message. Then click on the .ics file while having Outlook running. Choose “Open” in the file dialog box and voila the full accept and reject dialog is there.
My BlackBerry also does not like the invites generated by iCal. They arrive with two attachments. One is an html file which is empty, the other is shown as a “msg” file, which my BlackBerry refuses to open.
It’s not even that the underlying standards are in any way new. iCalendar is RFC 2445 from 1998. Maybe the standard allows for enough leeway for different implementations not to interoperate. Still does not seem like the kind of thing that should be broken in 2009!
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