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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Several of my friends are very successful public market investors. Some of them routinely find opportunities that produce 2x or better returns in liquid assets. But even they are stumped when it comes to trying to predict how the drama in the financial markets will impact prices. There appear to be (at least) two competing theories. The first theory holds that the actions by the Fed will continue to push down the US dollar which will result in inflation due to increasing prices for imported goods, starting of course with oil. The second theory holds that we are already in a recession, the rest of the world will be in a recession and everyone is de-levering, so the demand for commodities and financial assets will contract resulting in a deflation. There were some variations on these basic story lines, but what all have in common is that my friends – who usually have a lot of conviction – were second guessing themselves as they were talking to me. That’s what it means to be in uncharted territory.
Several of my friends are very successful public market investors. Some of them routinely find opportunities that produce 2x or better returns in liquid assets. But even they are stumped when it comes to trying to predict how the drama in the financial markets will impact prices. There appear to be (at least) two competing theories. The first theory holds that the actions by the Fed will continue to push down the US dollar which will result in inflation due to increasing prices for imported goods, starting of course with oil. The second theory holds that we are already in a recession, the rest of the world will be in a recession and everyone is de-levering, so the demand for commodities and financial assets will contract resulting in a deflation. There were some variations on these basic story lines, but what all have in common is that my friends – who usually have a lot of conviction – were second guessing themselves as they were talking to me. That’s what it means to be in uncharted territory.
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