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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My first word processor experience was on an Apple II - I have forgotten which program I liked best, but they were all fairly capable. This was over 25 years ago. When I look at how I use Microsoft Word today, not much has changed. Sure I will occasionally make use of some nice features like revision tracking, but there is nothing fundamentally different about the experience.
In particular there seems to be no leveraging of the enormous compute power of modern machines and the fact that we are (almost) always connected. I would like to see my “wordprocessor” infer what I am writing about and surface related content. I don’t mean a simplistic approach to smart linking individual words, but a more meaningful attempt to determine classify a document. Among related content, I would like to see things I have written in the past (from my hard drive, from my blog posts, from my email), things others have written, images, statistics, etc.
Zemanta is taking a first step in this direction. It is a smart choice that they are focusing on blogging because it is a well defined scope. But I sure hope that over the next 25 years this will get solved for writing at large.
My first word processor experience was on an Apple II - I have forgotten which program I liked best, but they were all fairly capable. This was over 25 years ago. When I look at how I use Microsoft Word today, not much has changed. Sure I will occasionally make use of some nice features like revision tracking, but there is nothing fundamentally different about the experience.
In particular there seems to be no leveraging of the enormous compute power of modern machines and the fact that we are (almost) always connected. I would like to see my “wordprocessor” infer what I am writing about and surface related content. I don’t mean a simplistic approach to smart linking individual words, but a more meaningful attempt to determine classify a document. Among related content, I would like to see things I have written in the past (from my hard drive, from my blog posts, from my email), things others have written, images, statistics, etc.
Zemanta is taking a first step in this direction. It is a smart choice that they are focusing on blogging because it is a well defined scope. But I sure hope that over the next 25 years this will get solved for writing at large.
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