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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One of my favorite themes is the slowness and profoundness of structural change. I was reminded of this in looking at my tax bill. We pay a lot of county taxes and it makes me wonder what counties are good for. They are sort of like middle management in the government hierarchy sitting between states and local communities. Now middle management has been under most pressure from the use of IT in companies. Information reporting and aggregation up the chain is becoming easier, as is the dissemeniation of directives down the chain. The same in theory should hold for government. Yet, if anything, it appears that at least in our case the county budget has been growing faster than either the local or the state budget. There may be a good reason for this that I am overlooking, but for now I consider counties vestiges from a time when it would have been hard for a state government to track what’s going on in all the municipalities.
One of my favorite themes is the slowness and profoundness of structural change. I was reminded of this in looking at my tax bill. We pay a lot of county taxes and it makes me wonder what counties are good for. They are sort of like middle management in the government hierarchy sitting between states and local communities. Now middle management has been under most pressure from the use of IT in companies. Information reporting and aggregation up the chain is becoming easier, as is the dissemeniation of directives down the chain. The same in theory should hold for government. Yet, if anything, it appears that at least in our case the county budget has been growing faster than either the local or the state budget. There may be a good reason for this that I am overlooking, but for now I consider counties vestiges from a time when it would have been hard for a state government to track what’s going on in all the municipalities.
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