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#011 Eric Jorgenson: Metagames, Feedback Loops and Transcending The Muggle World

Smart Friends

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Is More Feedback Always Good?

In a smoothly functioning system the number of formal messages is near minimum. A poorly functioning system begins to generate increasing numbers of messages, often shaped around such questions as, what went wrong? How far along is task x and especially, why don't we have better feedback? As the system sinks deeper and deeper into the morass of unfinished the business of exchanging messages expands expedientially. Like a catatonic schitsophrenic, it is now preoccupied with a phantasy life that is completely internal.

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