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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Humanity has a long and sad history of cruelty to other sentient beings including fellow humans. This is one of the darkest and saddest aspects of our selves and one we have struggled to overcome. Much progress has been made since the Middle Ages when public torture was common. And yet our progress comes from a relatively thin veneer of culture, barely restraining what remains a deep capacity for cruelty.
Among Trump’s worst influences is his embrace of cruelty as a means of politics. It is the most regressive part of his regressive Presidency, outstripping even the dismantling of science. Examples of Trump’s cruelty abound, from mocking people with disabilities to detaining immigrants in concentration camps. As always when it has been used historically, cruelty serves a dual purpose: to deny the humanity of the other and to rally and bond the supporters.
It is a mad and dangerous way of taking us back into a past filled with atrocities. Congress urgently needs to exercise any and all means of oversight or risk being further sidelined and seen as morally bankrupt. Voters need to put whatever minor objections they may have aside and vote for candidates who clearly renounce cruelty as a means of politics.
Humanity has a long and sad history of cruelty to other sentient beings including fellow humans. This is one of the darkest and saddest aspects of our selves and one we have struggled to overcome. Much progress has been made since the Middle Ages when public torture was common. And yet our progress comes from a relatively thin veneer of culture, barely restraining what remains a deep capacity for cruelty.
Among Trump’s worst influences is his embrace of cruelty as a means of politics. It is the most regressive part of his regressive Presidency, outstripping even the dismantling of science. Examples of Trump’s cruelty abound, from mocking people with disabilities to detaining immigrants in concentration camps. As always when it has been used historically, cruelty serves a dual purpose: to deny the humanity of the other and to rally and bond the supporters.
It is a mad and dangerous way of taking us back into a past filled with atrocities. Congress urgently needs to exercise any and all means of oversight or risk being further sidelined and seen as morally bankrupt. Voters need to put whatever minor objections they may have aside and vote for candidates who clearly renounce cruelty as a means of politics.
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