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...ure that protects and makes you more efficient, but also traps you. A too tight feedback loop leads to homogenous over-optimized things that are prone to catastrophic population collapse. A too-tight feedback loop leads to over-optimization.
Meaning is slow. Optimization is fast. Fast twitch feedback loops are about optimization not creating meaning.
When the feedback loop is long and expensive you'll cling to any signal you have. You'll lean into superstitions. Including things like taking offhand comments from execs a...
...strength in numbers. Horizontal platforms have multi-layered, multi-dimensional feedback loops, which scale with the combinatorial possibility of the building blocks. They scale much faster, allowing the platform to continually ratchet up the ...
...yourself "They're an asshole" or "They're an idiot" it terminates analysis. The feedback loop to learn is snipped and stops being a learning loop.
Evolution works across a long feedback loop integrating approximately over all variance in that loop. All actions that happen between the organism being conceived, and when it successfully repr...
...cality are where interesting things happen. Similar to the nested chain mail of feedback loops, always spinning. Ready to be perturbed and cascade that information; a dynamic equilibrium.
...ity. More investment typically takes more time. Time to completing a real-world feedback loop is critical. More investment means more time means longer loops to feedback means less likely to be viable when you finally interact with the ground ...
...tion implies this multi-scale chainmail of mutually reinforcing and influencing feedback loops.
...e they like the best. 10 blue links is a kind of version of this, but without a feedback loop that puts you at a new similar decision immediately. If the search results were good enough, you click a link and are satisfied and don't come back. ...
...gn a lo-fi system, you can make it easy to tinker and experiment and get a fast feedback loop.
...proves, higher bandwidth experimentation (including video!) gets easier. Faster feedback loops: more experimentation: more users climbing up the ladder of savviness in an open-ended tool. in the future we'll look back at ChatGPT and be like "w...
...ences is enchanted artifacts. A chat is too squishy. It has a fast, recoverable feedback loop. "No, not like that, like this…" But it's hard to get any kind of structured / durable output. An app is too hard. If the thing doesn't work, there's...
...e does innovation in the system happen? If at the infrastructure layer you have feedback loop speed problems. If at the higher layer you have coordination / messiness problems.
...tic principles from Gordon Brander: "If the error rate is too high, tighten the feedback loop. If the variety is too low, loosen the feedback loop."
...ly. This basic pattern is captured in an old essay of mine, [ITW] Self-hoisting Feedback Loops A viral ecosystem with these kinds of loops can get huge amounts of momentum.
...then the user can pop open the hood and fix it. This then gives a self-hoisting feedback loop to improve the quality for all users. This latter approach is significantly more resilient for a cutting-edge technology with variable quality. The A...
...man in the loop to correct and guide. "No, not like that, more like this…" This feedback loop makes them viable even when the answers aren't perfect. If you take a prompt that works great in a chat and jam it into an app shape it doesn't work,...
...u're in a scarcity environment, it's much harder to get out over your skis; the feedback loop is tighter. Googlers typically don't understand how to do anything in a scrappy, scarcity mindset given how resource-rich the environment is. The pla...
Close your feedback loops! Indicators of quality of the feedback: how many steps are you thinking ahead, and does it loop back? An OODA loop without the loop is bad. Closing ...