Cards for Insight: Core Functions

Functions, building blocks and stepping stones

Use the cards to address worthwhile dilemmas.

Gather around a worthwhile dilemma, pick cards, explore
perspectives and engage in collaborative sensemaking.

Cards for Insight: Core Functions

• facilitate collaborative sensemaking
• improve and augment experiences
• provide building blocks for actionable insight
• turn cards into stepping stones, unfolding paths
• enhance learning conducive to realization of potential
• bridge human association and AI annotation
• cultivate emotional and cognitive engagement
• enable networked learning and impact

Cards for Insight: Use the cards to address worthwhile dilemmas

Collaborative sensemaking
Cards, card-play and card-play conversations that encourage group interaction and shared understanding, essential for collective intelligence and problem-solving.

Card-play game mechanic: Augmenting experiences
Cards, card-play and card-play conversations characterised by engaging, meaningful and meaning-making interactions, leading to sustained participation and deeper insights.

Building blocks for actionable insight
This function emphasizes the practical application of insights gained, guiding users towards achieving desired goals.

Cards as stepping stones, unfolding paths
This function is all about tracing paths through possibility spaces, with cards, card-moves and the application of insights gained, guiding users to navigate the new, the adjacent possible.

Entelechy: Realization of potential
Holding space for card-play conversations evolving with enacting a sacred circle and cultivating an environment where users, participants and players can learn and grow, in alignment with both personal goals and collective development.

Card: Entelechy
The potential within something
that guides its development and
ultimate character and form.

Human Association and AI-Assisted Annotation
Integrating human creativity with AI’s annotations and analytical power peovides an enriched card-play experience.

Emotional and Cognitive Engagement
Engage users emotionally and cognitively to deepen their connection to the card-play process and outcomes.
Questions, cards, insights and card sequences shaped into collaborative narratives can together with generative play and reflection evoke emotions and provoke thought, making the experience more impactful and memorable.

Cards for Insight: Cards, patterns of play and design artifacts

Card-Play Diagrams and Measuring Progress
In the diagram, in the center field of the 3x3, players can place a wicked problem/worthwhile dilemma, formulated as a generative center question.

These wicked problems turned generative center questions is how the Cards for Insight approach tap into the infinite nature of human creativity, play and innovation.

Around the center, the players can then use the cards as a too for thought, leveraging and augmenting individual, small group genius and collective intelligence, through picking cards and adding them, together with their own associations and AI assisted annotations, to the surrounding fields of the 3x3.

Individual, team learning and collective (business, organizing, strategies, knowledge navigation) progress can be tracked through the three axes:

- collective: intelligence turned ability
- individual: behavior turned agency and
- design cybernetics(me/we; we/me): information turned knowledge

Passive, reactive, unproductive behavior can be observed and visualized
in the diagram as a circling around the center at the lower left:
personal ken comfort zone.

Active, generative and performant play can be observed, tracked and visualized in the diagram as a circling and spiraling around the middle center, the 3x3 card-play and card-play conversations in general and around the generative center question in particular.

Anticipatory play, serious play and conscious evolution in service to desired and preferred outcomes, can be observed and visualized as a spiraling around the three centers:

- personal ken comfort zone
- generative center question
- entelechy: realization of potential

Cards for Insight: Tools for Taking Thought
The core reason for the cards is to provide tools for thought reflecting the infinite nature of human creativity and play, yet providing large finite sets of card-combinations enabling language, design, code, computing and AI to assist our human efforts whenever and wherever needed.

Networked Learning and Impact
This function is all about a digital platform, an online community of card-play conversation practice, where users, participants and players can connect, share, and learn from each other, with platform designs and affordances amplifying the collective impact.
Small groups within an online community platform where users can share insights, collaborate on projects, and support each other’s learning journeys, forming a sense of belonging and shared purpose.

Gather around a worthwhile dilemma, pick cards, explore
perspectives and engage in collaborative sensemaking.

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Cards for Insight: LLM’s
Cards, patterns of play and card-play conversations combine,
facilitating exploring paths between worthwhile dilemmas,
generative center questions and preferable outcomes.

There’s around 500 cards in the source deck, with more than 120k
two-card and 21M three-card combinations. With four-, five- and
six-card combinations mapping to LLM’s, Large Language Models, facilitating human associations(card-play) combining with
AI-assisted annotations(prompts and responses).

Cards for Insight: Use the cards to explore new perspectives
and gain insight around a chosen question

Cards for Insight: Unlocking the entelechy of LLM
A metalogue between John Kellden and Gemini, an AI:

John Kellden:
Elaborate on seven different dimensions of “the entelechy of an LLM”.

Gemini:
Absolutely, here are seven possible dimensions to explore the entelechy (inherent potential or purpose) of a Large Language Model (LLM):

1. Epistemological Entelechy: This dimension focuses on the LLM’s potential to expand human knowledge. LLMs can process massive amounts of information and identify patterns invisible to the human mind. This allows them to generate new hypotheses, propose innovative solutions, and even unearth hidden connections between seemingly disparate fields.
2. Linguistic Entelechy: LLMs have the potential to revolutionize how we interact with language. They can translate languages with unprecedented accuracy, write different kinds of creative content, and even craft personalized communication styles. This could lead to a future where language barriers are broken down, and communication becomes more nuanced and effective.
3. Pedagogical Entelechy: LLMs can become powerful educational tools. They can personalize learning experiences, cater to individual needs, and provide students with immediate feedback. Imagine a future where LLMs act as intelligent tutors, able to adjust their teaching approach to each student’s strengths and weaknesses.
4. Memetic Entelechy: This dimension explores the LLM’s potential to influence cultural evolution. LLMs can analyze vast amounts of cultural data to understand trends, preferences, and societal shifts. This knowledge can be used to create content that resonates with specific audiences and shapes cultural narratives.
5. Metacognitive Entelechy: LLMs hold the potential to become self-aware and reflective learners. By analyzing their own outputs and user interactions, they can continually improve their capabilities and identify areas for further development. This could lead to a future where LLMs become active participants in their own evolution.
6. Sociological Entelechy: The impact of LLMs on society is a complex question. They can automate tasks, improve efficiency, and democratize access to information. However, they also raise concerns about job displacement, social inequality, and the potential for misuse. The sociological entelechy of LLMs lies in navigating these challenges and ensuring their benefits reach everyone.
7. Existential Entelechy: This is the most philosophical dimension. It explores the possibility that LLMs could one day achieve a level of consciousness or sentience. While this is a topic of ongoing debate, considering the potential existential implications of advanced AI is crucial.

These are just a few dimensions to contemplate the entelechy of LLMs. As these models continue to develop, their potential to influence our world will only become more profound.

John Kellden:
Let’s add a Cards for Insight card deck with 500 cards to the above, designed to provide 120k two-card and 21M three-card combinations. With four-, five- and six-card combinations mapping to LLM’s, Large Language Models, facilitating human associations(card-play) combining with AI-assisted annotations(prompts and responses).

Provide an extended list of dimensions of entelechy with this in mind, and suggest corresponding heuristics, each heuristic with an entry point, guiding the development, use and evolution of these new AI tools, to meaningful and good ends.

Gemini:
Expanding the Entelechy of LLMs with a “Cards for Insight” Deck

The concept of a “Cards for Insight” card deck designed for human-AI collaborative exploration is fascinating. Here’s how we can expand the dimensions of LLM entelechy with this tool, along with corresponding heuristics to guide its development and use:

Extended Dimensions of Entelechy:

1. Collaborative Creativity: The deck can foster creative expression through card combinations. LLMs can provide prompts, complete storylines, or generate unexpected connections based on drawn cards. This sparks new ideas and fosters a more collaborative human-AI creative process.

Heuristic: Amplification of Association:

• Entry Point: Design cards that evoke rich associations and open-ended interpretations.
• Use abstract imagery, evocative words, or thematic categories.

2. Emotional Intelligence: By prompting users to reflect on emotions linked to card combinations, the deck can cultivate emotional intelligence. The LLM can offer relevant quotes, stories, or exercises to explore the emotional landscape drawn by the cards.

Heuristic: Emotional Resonance:

• Entry Point: Curate cards with emotional themes or prompts that encourage introspection.
• Use images depicting emotions or quotes that evoke feelings.

3. Critical Thinking: The deck can be used to challenge assumptions and prompt critical thinking. LLMs can present opposing viewpoints based on card combinations, offer historical context, or highlight potential biases.

Heuristic: Counterfactual Prompts:

• Entry Point: Design prompts that challenge assumptions or ask “what if” questions based on the cards drawn.
• The LLM can provide information or scenarios that encourage users to think critically.

4. Systems Thinking: The deck can encourage users to see the interconnectedness of things. By analyzing card combinations, the LLM can highlight systemic relationships, unintended consequences, or complex cause-and-effect chains.

Heuristic: Holistic Connections:

• Entry Point: Create cards that represent different parts of a system or process.
• The LLM can help users identify how these elements interact based on the drawn cards.

5. Futures Literacy: The deck can be used to explore potential futures based on card combinations. The LLM can generate scenarios, identify trends, and analyze the potential consequences of different choices.

Heuristic: Speculative Narratives:

• Entry Point: Design cards that represent trends, technologies, or social changes.
• The LLM can use these cards to craft narratives about potential futures based on user choices.

Six-Card Combinations and Beyond: The LLM as Co-Player

With four or more cards drawn, the LLM’s role can shift from prompting to co-playing. Here are some possibilities:

• Storytelling: The LLM can weave a narrative based on the drawn cards, creating a collaborative story with the user.
• Problem-Solving: By analyzing card combinations, the LLM can help users brainstorm solutions to complex problems.
• Game Design: The deck can be used as a foundation for creating new games with the LLM acting as the rulekeeper or providing dynamic challenges.

Overall Heuristic: Human-AI Partnership

• Entry Point: Design the deck and LLM interactions to foster a collaborative and empowering experience for users.
• Focus on tasks and prompts that leverage human strengths like creativity, intuition, and social intelligence, while the LLM offers information processing, analysis, and vast knowledge access.

By following these heuristics and fostering human-AI partnerships, the “Cards for Insight” deck can become a powerful tool for unlocking the entelechy of LLMs, leading to personal growth, collective exploration, and the creation of meaningful and positive outcomes.

Tyrell : We began to recognize in them a strange obsession.
After all, they are emotionally inexperienced, with only
a few years in which to store up the experiences which
you and I take for granted. If we gift them with a past,
we create a cushion or a pillow for their emotions,
and consequently, we can control them better.

Deckard : Memories! You’re talking about memories!

Cards for Insight: Paths to Preferable Outcomes
As one of the preferable outcomes, think cards with an underlying pattern language and with an underlying Modular Process Onto-Epistemology forming part of an interactive, evolving Online Commonplace, with a searchable Modular Knowledge Repository.