Add microblog post: comment on 'The Value of Things' by Bob Nystrom

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+title: On AI, Meaning, and Interactive Narratives
+description: A comment on Bob Nystrom's "The Value of Things" - reflecting on utility vs meaning in AI usage
+date: 2026-02-20T00:00:00.000Z
+tags:
+  - ai
+  - creativity
+  - meaning
+  - interactive-fiction
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+Beautiful read (as always)! Lyria 3's drop reminded me to read this again :)
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+Ioana Pioaru, an artist whose work I enjoy very much on Instagram, said of [the abusive use of] AI that "...the one thing that it will never steal from you (unless you allow it): your love for your own art and the process of art making."
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+source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOiqrt9iB-2/
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+LLMs have sparked joy for me on one front: the making of interactive narratives (a la Nicky Case) --- something I always wanted to do and had ideas for, but found the technical side daunting/tedious (read: lazy me). Now it feels empowering to be able to try... it's probably mostly utility from a certain PoV but for me it also has some degree of meaning because of my own long-time frustration at not being able to do this sort of thing, and now suddenly being somewhat able to :D
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+*Originally a [comment](https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2026/01/24/the-value-of-things/) on Bob Nystrom's excellent essay "[The Value of Things](https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2026/01/24/the-value-of-things/)"*