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  1. "Tools for thought : how to understand and apply the latest scientific techniques of problem solving", Waddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1977

    > Drawing on general systems theory, operations research, cybernetics, futures research, and catastrophe theory, a distinguished geneticist provides the general reader with tools for perceiving and solving today's complex economic, social, and ecological problems.

    archive.org/details/toolsforth

    #SystemsTheory #Cybernetics

  2. It's a Tool
    It's a Person
    It's a Hypervigilance Problem

    The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

    Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

    We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

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    Intrigued? Read more at:
    systemic.engineering/the-trick/

    #Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

  3. Die folgende Arbeit entwickelt den borromäischen Knoten als Denkfigur für ein rotierendes Zusammenspiel von drei Registern in einer selbstreflexiven, dreiwertigen, paradoxen Logik mit drei involutiven Negationsoperatoren.

    #psychology #lacan #polykontextualitat #polykontextural #logic #reflection #philosophy #ai #ki #paradox #Paradoxien #logik #semiotik #semiotic #semiotics #cybernetics #kybernetik #semioticsystem #cybernetic #kybernetiker #kybernethik

    infosophia.eu/Borromaeische-Lo

  4. Die folgende Arbeit entwickelt den borromäischen Knoten als Denkfigur für ein rotierendes Zusammenspiel von drei Registern in einer selbstreflexiven, dreiwertigen, paradoxen Logik mit drei involutiven Negationsoperatoren.

    #psychology #lacan #polykontextualitat #polykontextural #logic #reflection #philosophy #ai #ki #paradox #Paradoxien #logik #semiotik #semiotic #semiotics #cybernetics #kybernetik #semioticsystem #cybernetic #kybernetiker #kybernethik

    infosophia.eu/Borromaeische-Lo

  5. Die folgende Arbeit entwickelt den borromäischen Knoten als Denkfigur für ein rotierendes Zusammenspiel von drei Registern in einer selbstreflexiven, dreiwertigen, paradoxen Logik mit drei involutiven Negationsoperatoren.

    #psychology #lacan #polykontextualitat #polykontextural #logic #reflection #philosophy #ai #ki #paradox #Paradoxien #logik #semiotik #semiotic #semiotics #cybernetics #kybernetik #semioticsystem #cybernetic #kybernetiker #kybernethik

    infosophia.eu/Borromaeische-Lo

  6. Die folgende Arbeit entwickelt den borromäischen Knoten als Denkfigur für ein rotierendes Zusammenspiel von drei Registern in einer selbstreflexiven, dreiwertigen, paradoxen Logik mit drei involutiven Negationsoperatoren.

    #psychology #lacan #polykontextualitat #polykontextural #logic #reflection #philosophy #ai #ki #paradox #Paradoxien #logik #semiotik #semiotic #semiotics #cybernetics #kybernetik #semioticsystem #cybernetic #kybernetiker #kybernethik

    infosophia.eu/Borromaeische-Lo

  7. A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”


    AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.

    The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.

    Wiener would laugh.

    #Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness

  8. Soeben das neue Buch von @ANosthoff aus der freundlichen @Buchhandlung_am_Bruehl abgeholt.

    700 Seiten geballtes Fachwissen zum Thema #kybernetik in vielen Facetten. Wer gerne hinter die Ideologie der #techbros und des #siliconvalley blicken möchte und an deren Wurzeln interessiert ist, dem sei dieses Buch wärmstens empfohlen. 📚

    #literatur #lesen #buch #buchstodon #cybernetics #cybernetic #techfaschismus #techfascism #ideologie

  9. "No other computing machine approaches the economy of energy of the brain."

    -Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics

    Burn it up SMARTpeople. Keep destroying the planet to forgo using the computer inside your skull.

    #GenerativeAI #Energy #Cybernetics #NorbertWiener

  10. This thing all things devours:
    Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
    Gnaws iron, bites steel;
    Grinds hard stones to meal;
    Slays king, ruins town,
    And beats high mountain down.

    — Tolkien • The Hobbit

    Talking about time is a waste of time. Time is merely an abstraction from process and what is needed are better languages and better pictures for describing process in all its variety. In the sciences the big breakthrough in describing process came with the differential and integral calculus, that made it possible to shuttle between quantitative measures of state and quantitative measures of change. But every inquiry into a new phenomenon begins with the slimmest grasp of its qualitative features and labors long and hard to reach as far as a tentative logical description. What can avail us in the mean time, still tuning up before the first measure, to reason about change in qualitative terms?

    Et sic deinceps … (So it begins …)

    #Animata, #CSPeirce, #Change, #Cybernetics, #DifferentialLogic, #GraphTheory, #LawsOfForm, #Logic, #LogicalGraphs, #Mathematics, #Paradox, #Peirce, #Process, #ProcessThinking, #SpencerBrown, #SystemsTheory, #Time, #Tolkien

  11. @j2m @ifixcoinops
    Also this is FAR cheaper than spending $1000s on skills-training simulators for endoscopic surgery. As a department, I mean.

    The trick is managing skill progression. So after a month, the clear glass plate has to go, then after another month we have to start adhering the snacks to the machine, etc, etc...

    Obviously the advanced vending machine will be very difficult to steal from, and the surgeons will have to put it through a CT scanner first to understand the internal layout, before attempting surgery upon it.

    #surgery #medicine #surgeons #controlTheory #cybernetics #training #teaching #medmastodon #vendingMachines #vendingMachine #robotics #simulation

  12. Metasystem transition (Evolution 🧬)

    A metasystem transition is the emergence, through evolution, of a higher level of organization or control. A metasystem is formed by the integration of a number of initially independent components, such as molecules, cells, or individuals, and the emergence of a system steering or controlling their interactions. As ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyst

    #MetasystemTransition #Evolution #Hypotheses #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Superorganisms

  13. The still very cool 'Cybernetic' zine from 1986, with the slogan "Cybernetic, the magazine: your mind will never be the same". A thread through this issue seems to be the violence inflicted on society by the application of certain types of reason.

    #cybernetic #cybernetics #secondOrderCybernetics

  14. Teleology

    …is an algorithmic composition of mine — the sounds that you can hear are produced by instruments that play notes selected by an algorithm.

    <a href="https://eidon.bandcamp.com/album/my-little-grundgestalts">My Little Grundgestalts by Eidon</a>

    The algorithm simulates matches from a traditional game of cards known by the name Beggar-my-neighbour (also known as Strip Jack Naked).

    Every match is defined by the cards that are shuffled and then given to two players, whom I call Neal and Jack.

    The pack of cards is not the “standard” pack. It only has 12 cards, by the following face values:

    two 0s, one 3, two 5s, three 7s, one 8, and three 9s.

    Six cards are given to Neal, six cards to Jack, and they start playing.

    Where does the music come from? From the states of the game, represented by Neal’s cards, Jack’s card, and the card that are being stacked “on the table” by the two players. Those states are interpreted as numbers, and those numbers select notes.

    Sounds complex, though it is actually very simple to code. The simulator, e.g., is available here, while the note selection code is defined here.

    Now, if you consider the states of the games as coordinates in a space, what happens exactly? That the progress of the game becomes… a set of points in that space!

    And that’s what you have in this videoclip: what you see is the set of all possible states, plotted as a set of unit spheres. The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is used to create the frames of the videoclip, in which the position of the observer is slowly changed at each time step so as to create the illusion of movement. The video was created with the Permutation Feedpovray tool.

    If you like this music, you may want to download a lossless version of it from my bandcamp. There you may find a lot of my compositions. And if you like them too, maybe you could subscribe to my list and be informed of the new songs I add there.

    A “like” to my page would also be great ^_^ Thanks very much!

    • Eidon.

    #Eidon #Teleology #NorbertWiener #Cybernetics #OriginalMusic

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