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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Last time in the Tech Tuesday cycle on programming we saw that so-called reserved words have special meaning. They effectively constitute the built-in vocabulary of a programming language. Now let’s go all the way back to the basic analogy that I used for the overview post: programming is telling a computer what to do, which is very much like telling a person what to do.
One of the expressive abilities that is required for that are conditionals, as in: if the front door is locked, then go around the house to the back door. In other words, some of the instructions apply only if a certain condition is encountered. All programming languages have some notion of a conditional statement. For instance, in Javascript we can say
Last time in the Tech Tuesday cycle on programming we saw that so-called reserved words have special meaning. They effectively constitute the built-in vocabulary of a programming language. Now let’s go all the way back to the basic analogy that I used for the overview post: programming is telling a computer what to do, which is very much like telling a person what to do.
One of the expressive abilities that is required for that are conditionals, as in: if the front door is locked, then go around the house to the back door. In other words, some of the instructions apply only if a certain condition is encountered. All programming languages have some notion of a conditional statement. For instance, in Javascript we can say
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