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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My laptop is getting a bit long in the tooth and like most Windows machines it is slowing down considerably. Tom Evslin wrote about this phenomenon earlier this year and came up with the wonderful image of barnacles. Oddly though he did not mention file fragmentation as one of the biggest sources of barnacles. Windows XP does a terrible job at keeping the disk from becoming completely jumbled and the defrag utility that comes with Windows XP must not have been touched in a decade. I have now run it three times consecutively and the image of my hard disk still looks like the ouput of a spectrometer. There are systems files that the defragger doesn’t touch at all and then there are mysterious files that the defragger simply refuses to put into contiguous space on the disk. Time to shell out money for one of the commercial offerings that actually gets the job done.
My laptop is getting a bit long in the tooth and like most Windows machines it is slowing down considerably. Tom Evslin wrote about this phenomenon earlier this year and came up with the wonderful image of barnacles. Oddly though he did not mention file fragmentation as one of the biggest sources of barnacles. Windows XP does a terrible job at keeping the disk from becoming completely jumbled and the defrag utility that comes with Windows XP must not have been touched in a decade. I have now run it three times consecutively and the image of my hard disk still looks like the ouput of a spectrometer. There are systems files that the defragger doesn’t touch at all and then there are mysterious files that the defragger simply refuses to put into contiguous space on the disk. Time to shell out money for one of the commercial offerings that actually gets the job done.
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