Gary R., Peter, List: The link to Peter's paper on Arisbe ( https://cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/skagesta/thinking.htm) is not working. Can it be fixed? If not, is that paper freely available online elsewhere, or do I need to request a copy through interlibrary loan?
Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt / twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 7:03 AM Peter Skagestad <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary, list, > > It may be of interest that I argued for the relevance of Peirce’s semiotic > to Engelbart’s intelligence augmentation in my 1993 paper ‘Thinking with > Machines’, available on the Peirce Telecommunity website. Doug read the > paper, we had a couple of conversations about it, and I think I can claim > the credit for Doug’s taking an interest in Peirce in his later years. > > Best, > Peter > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 9, 2026, at 12:54 AM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon, Ulysses, Jeff, List, > > I agree that "AQI" (or even "AQ-I") is quite unlikely to catch on any day > soon. > > Recently I've been reflecting on Doug Engelbart's project,* Intelligence > Augmentation* (IA), which my friend and colleague, Aldo de Moor, has done > much 'hands-on' work through his work on *CommunitySense *( > https://www.communitysense.nl). Aldo describes his project as "Building > on and generalizing from Engelbart’s views," and summarizes Engelbart's > vision in "Making Doug’s Dream Come True: Collaboratories in Context" ( > https://communitysense.nl/papers/iccs02b.pdf) > > In [Engelbart's] view, the only feasible approach [to developing > 'collaboratories' functioning as mediators of distributed groups working > with systems of information tools] is a long term, pragmatically guided > whole-system evolution.* It is crucial not just to create good > socio-technical systems, consisting of co-evolving Human and Tool Systems. > Also, one should continuously improve this design process, in other words > “improve the improvement capability of the organization”*. > > > In rereading Aldo's paper I was reminded that as early as 2000 I had a > keen interest in this kind of research: See a paper Aldo, Mary Keeler, and > I collaborated on, "Towards a Pragmatic Web" ( > https://repository.tilburguniversity.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/953ea141-d6d4-4cf9-961e-40542bd4d2f3/content > ). > > Recently I've been working on the possibility of building on and > developing Engelbart's and de Moor's work on collaboratories in > consideration of AI, an idea that I've been referring to as IAAI > (Intelligence Augmentation meets Artificial Intelligence). That acronym may > not take hold either, but I think it captures the gist of the idea of a > contemporary approach to how we humans might approach grappling with such > extraordinary LLM developments. > > Best, > > Gary R > >
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