iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The rules lawyer approach to prompting/wishing is, of course, antithetical to how the underlying "technology" actually works. You cannot list the perfect set of requirements as an input and expect to get back the perfect output that match those requirements. That thinking is *exactly* backwards!

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I actually wrote about TTRPGs and product a while back - these games teach us a lot because they are not really rules based. They are first and foremost a social environment, just like work is. And in this environment players start from the outputs: 1) we want to have fun, 2) what rules will be fun?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This works well because anyone at any time can tell if they are having fun, or say "this isn't fun" and change which rules the table is using. Being able to recognize that the outputs aren't fit for purpose is a prerequisite for making the system work.

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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.social

I sometimes say as a slightly sardonic thought experiment-joke that the perfect interface is a single large button that is a perfect vessel for the transformation of users' will, and I'm excited to set that idea next to this one and see what happens

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