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Andy Matuschak 17. sij
How should we evaluate tools for thought? There's no simple metric, as far as I can tell. The best tools change your paradigm anyway, so your old metrics (books printed per year?) aren't what matter. Here's one (vague, but focusing): how much meaning is unlocked on the margin?
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Andy Matuschak 17. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @andy_matuschak
That is, you can talk about Mathematica's value by asking how many students use it, or if it helps their test scores, or by timing people solving problems using different tools. But its most significant value is in producing marginal profound mathematical insights.
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Andy Matuschak 17. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @andy_matuschak
It's all a variant of Kay's "Sistine chapels per generation," I guess! But the marginal meaning doesn't have to be a grand edifice: Twitter's most powerful metric as a tool for thought is in creating transformative (off-platform) personal connections.
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Andy Matuschak
It's not clear how to get leading indicators for any of this! As far as I can tell, you want to be on the lookout for very strange stories, like casually making an animation system in Smalltalk at age 12. Do any of you have good leading indicator stories here?
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Michael Pershan 17. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @andy_matuschak @mairwatching
I'm worried I don't know what you mean by "leading indicator" but it seems to me that you might analyze the discourse surrounding the tool. The shared google doc convo for instance generates a certain kind of conversation. And is it really thought if it's not shared?
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Andy Matuschak 17. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @mpershan
(Leading indicator: something you can measure as an early sign for what you really want to measure) This is a great point! E.g. impact of many reform teaching ideas in discourse before in widespread academic outcomes. Re: your last q—transcendent spiritual experience?
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Scott Farrar 17. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @andy_matuschak @mairwatching
perhaps a /leading/ indicator is people attracted to use it for old thoughts and end up somewhere new. I don't have this phrase right but... "more of the same but faster" So if the "faster" is faster enough... Is your example: person tried old thing (animation), did new thing?
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