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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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· Paul Welty · ai · philosophy

Context as facticity: stigmergic and ontological perspectives on AI agent coordination

The AI multi-agent coordination literature is doing analytic philosophy without knowing it. Continental philosophy — Heidegger’s facticity, Gadamer’s fusion of horizons — explains why a chat channel works better than a constitutional framework. The answer involves digital pheromones and the fact that AI agents have facticity too.


· ai · work

The accommodation tax

Every time I ask an AI agent for a change, I still cringe. The flinch response trained into me by years of working with humans never unlearned itself, even when the other side is incapable of pushback.