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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Recent political research has provided evidence that state level corruption increases the further the capital is from the state’s dominant city. Living in New York and having seen the corrupt mess that is Albany this comes as no surprise. As past readers of Continuations know, I am a supporter of Represent.us and the American Anti-corruption Act. Also, here is a longer post that explains why the influence of money in politics has been growing ever more problematic.
If you are a registered Democrat in NY State today you can do something about corruption: go and vote for Zephyr Teachout for Governor and Tim Wu for Lieutenant Governor in the primary elections (these are *separate* votes!). Governor Cuomo failed utterly at what he set out as job #1 which was to “clean up Albany.” Worse than failing at it he interfered with the supposedly independent Moreland commission once they started to look into firms that worked with his campaign.
If you have not done so yet, you can learn more about the Teachout/Wu campaign. Then head to the polls today. As per usual in primaries there are very few voters and absolutely no lines. The polls in NY remain open until 9pm so there is plenty of time.
Recent political research has provided evidence that state level corruption increases the further the capital is from the state’s dominant city. Living in New York and having seen the corrupt mess that is Albany this comes as no surprise. As past readers of Continuations know, I am a supporter of Represent.us and the American Anti-corruption Act. Also, here is a longer post that explains why the influence of money in politics has been growing ever more problematic.
If you are a registered Democrat in NY State today you can do something about corruption: go and vote for Zephyr Teachout for Governor and Tim Wu for Lieutenant Governor in the primary elections (these are *separate* votes!). Governor Cuomo failed utterly at what he set out as job #1 which was to “clean up Albany.” Worse than failing at it he interfered with the supposedly independent Moreland commission once they started to look into firms that worked with his campaign.
If you have not done so yet, you can learn more about the Teachout/Wu campaign. Then head to the polls today. As per usual in primaries there are very few voters and absolutely no lines. The polls in NY remain open until 9pm so there is plenty of time.
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