What is unexplored?

broach the subject later

• We got into a chat about what unexplored means.

• My own response at that time

  • There is no clear definition of “what is unexplored” or “what is unexploredness.”
  • I personally sympathize with this.

  • The final outputs are disparate and the evaluation criteria are not aligned. But “great things are great”. The meaning of the unexplored is that we brought in a simple evaluation: “If it is great, it will be chosen as a super creator.

    • Yoichi Ochiai
  • However, rather than defining “unexplored” as “this is what it is,” I think it is beneficial for each individual PM to make his/her own judgment based on his/her own axis of value judgment.

• I’ve been thinking about this some more in my own way.

  • I emphasize that it’s based on voluntary motivation.
  • I believe that applications that look like “I submitted this because my lab teacher said it would be a good idea to do this” should be dropped.
  • I’m disappointed when the explanation comes first: “In recent years, the birthrate is declining and the population is aging, so this is what we need to do.
  • I just want to make this thing!” should come first.
  • It can be described as “based on one’s values.”

• Another requirement is to “make something new.”

  • Voluntary motivation is a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition.
  • ‘I want to make it anyway, so I’ll make a Minecraft clone!’ is not good enough.

• In summary: “to create something new, based on spontaneous motivation.”

• Being “technologically advanced” is not a requirement.

  • Better to be advanced
  • However, if we focus only on the high level, “the act of piling small stones on top of piles of stones piled up by our predecessors” is efficient.
  • This is following the “values of our predecessors”, and that weakens the “based on my values”.

• The “newness” of the “new” is not self-evident.

  • Since everyone’s sense of “newness” is different, there is no “what all people think is new.
    • After Columbus found the new continent, people would say, “Just take a ship and go in one direction.” see Columbus’ egg.
    • The act of saying “that’s anyone’s idea” after someone else has created something new, that’s what anyone can do.
  • When you try to make something that the general public says, “This is new,” you have to think in terms of “the general public’s values.
    • This makes it more advantageous to take the “values of the general public majority” and make something slightly different.
    • The public doesn’t understand things that have been changed significantly.
      • The public says, “[I need a fast horse.

• Difficult to evaluate

  • When we do something new based on spontaneous motivation, it is difficult to evaluate the results.

    • So the final outputs are disparate and the evaluation criteria are not aligned.

  • No matter what evaluation axis is defined, optimization on that axis will take place.
  • It makes no sense to do that when you are trying to create human resources that create a new evaluation axis itself.
  • therefore

  • I think it is beneficial for each individual PM to make a judgment based on his/her own axis of value judgment, rather than defining “unexplored” as such.

  • It comes down to

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