Broken lens: using user-centered design to evaluate open-ended protocols.

“What problem does this solve” vs “what landscape does this open up”.

Products solve problems. Protocols create possibilities.

Variability selection hypothesis:  intelligence evolved as a response to environmental variability. If it could have been solved with habitat-specific adaptations it would have been. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1998)7:3%3C81::AID-EVAN3%3E3.0.CO;2-A

Maybe we’ve finally hit this bit? (good) https://i.imgur.com/R4cvQuc.jpg

Everything around me was someone’s lifework

Gordon

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