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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A while back I recorded an interview with Jason Jacobs for his podcast series My Climate Journey. Jason did a great job pushing me on a number of different issues which helped clarify my thinkings (thanks, Jason). Today Jason launched the episode and I suggest you go and check it out. I love the Jason publishes a transcript also, so if you prefer reading you can do that also. Here’s a brief excerpt:
Jason Jacobs: Well, that’s what’s been happening to me is that I was always concerned about it, but then I was trying to kind of go on. I was building that fitness company, and I wanted to land the plane. Then we landed the plane. Then I took some time, and there’s a lot more fun things that one could be doing than focused on climate change. But yet the more I looked into it, I kept hoping to find, oh, it’s overblown, and it’s under control. We’ve got this, and I can go back to fitness, which I love, or something else [crosstalk 00:08:39]
Albert Wenger: It’s sort of the opposite. The more you dig, the more you go, what? That’s not true and that’s not true? Like renewables. I love renewables. I think solar is fantastic. I think wind is interesting. But they’re not going to get us there, and not just get us there. They’re not going to get us there by a wide mile. So suddenly you go, oh, all this solar is great, and we should definitely be doing more of it. If you live in Arizona where the sun shines a lot and you run an AC, you should probably be running that at the hottest hours of the way of solar. So there’s a lot of things we can do, but it’s not going to get us all the way there.
A while back I recorded an interview with Jason Jacobs for his podcast series My Climate Journey. Jason did a great job pushing me on a number of different issues which helped clarify my thinkings (thanks, Jason). Today Jason launched the episode and I suggest you go and check it out. I love the Jason publishes a transcript also, so if you prefer reading you can do that also. Here’s a brief excerpt:
Jason Jacobs: Well, that’s what’s been happening to me is that I was always concerned about it, but then I was trying to kind of go on. I was building that fitness company, and I wanted to land the plane. Then we landed the plane. Then I took some time, and there’s a lot more fun things that one could be doing than focused on climate change. But yet the more I looked into it, I kept hoping to find, oh, it’s overblown, and it’s under control. We’ve got this, and I can go back to fitness, which I love, or something else [crosstalk 00:08:39]
Albert Wenger: It’s sort of the opposite. The more you dig, the more you go, what? That’s not true and that’s not true? Like renewables. I love renewables. I think solar is fantastic. I think wind is interesting. But they’re not going to get us there, and not just get us there. They’re not going to get us there by a wide mile. So suddenly you go, oh, all this solar is great, and we should definitely be doing more of it. If you live in Arizona where the sun shines a lot and you run an AC, you should probably be running that at the hottest hours of the way of solar. So there’s a lot of things we can do, but it’s not going to get us all the way there.
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