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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On the weekend, the NY Times ran an article on doping in academia. I find the current obsession with doping (including the seemingly endless steroids in baseball investigation) amusing. Not that I condone breaking laws or suggest that we should let folks who break laws off the hook – it’s simply that much of the moral outrage that accompanies these discussions seems misplaced. Most of us would appear “doped” to an athlete from say 100 years ago. Are vitamin supplements just better nutrition or doping? Are anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen not doping because they don’t contain steroids? Clearly what’s acceptable is part of a social consensus. And that social consensus is about to be dislodged in a major way as we crack the code on modifying our genes. It will likely start with modifications to thwart life threatening conditions, but I am sure in competitive arenas such as sport it will rapidly go beyond that.
On the weekend, the NY Times ran an article on doping in academia. I find the current obsession with doping (including the seemingly endless steroids in baseball investigation) amusing. Not that I condone breaking laws or suggest that we should let folks who break laws off the hook – it’s simply that much of the moral outrage that accompanies these discussions seems misplaced. Most of us would appear “doped” to an athlete from say 100 years ago. Are vitamin supplements just better nutrition or doping? Are anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen not doping because they don’t contain steroids? Clearly what’s acceptable is part of a social consensus. And that social consensus is about to be dislodged in a major way as we crack the code on modifying our genes. It will likely start with modifications to thwart life threatening conditions, but I am sure in competitive arenas such as sport it will rapidly go beyond that.
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