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   Kevin Riggle (kevinriggle@ioc.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 13:43:58 JST Kevin Riggle

   It occurs to me that “the purpose of the system is what it does” and “the intent of the system is what it does” are subtly different statements and tightly intertwined but very often conflated and it could be productive to disentangle them a little bit

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 13:43:58 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @kevinriggle
     Huh: I often quote the first (purpose) but have never heard the (latter). “Intent” seems not only incorrect but misguided: AIUI the original Stafford Beers idea of POSIWID was to get away from arguing about what other people think and pay attention to what actually •happens•. But “intent” does capture how people often misunderstand POSIWID.