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AI in Solarpunk Civilization – Opportunities and Threats
AI is not a homogeneous category to accept or reject wholesale. We separate three questions: about the concept itself, about today's large-scale AI industry, and about the possibility of a decentralized model serving self-governance.https://petroskowo.pl/2026/08/30/ai-in-solarpunk-civilization-opportunities-and-threats/
SI w cywilizacji solarpunkowej – szanse i zagrożenia
SI nie jest jednorodną kategorią do przyjęcia lub odrzucenia w całości. Rozdzielamy trzy pytania: o samą koncepcję, o dzisiejszy wielkoskalowy przemysł SI i o możliwość zdecentralizowanego modelu służącego samorządności.https://petroskowo.pl/2026/08/30/si-w-cywilizacji-solarpunkowej-szanse-i-zagrozenia/
Stafford Beer. Cibernética del Desarrollo Nacional Surgida a partir del Trabajo Realizado en Chile (1974)
Cibernética del Desarrollo Nacional Surgida a Partir del Trabajo Realizado en Chile Stafford Beer (Conferencia Zaheer, 5 de diciembre de 1974) Me complace enormemente estar aquí con vosotros y pronunciar esta conferencia inaugural de la Fundación Científica Zaheer. Seguramente conoceréis las inmortales palabras de los Apócrifos, escritas en el libro del Eclesiástico, que dicen en parte: «Alabemos ahora a los hombres ilustres... que dan consejo con su entendimiento, a quienes […]
Pain signals in a body do not have to be authorised by intermediate processing; they reach consciousness immediately. #algedonicsignal #viablesystemmodel #staffordbeer
A potential actually-useful use-case for chatbots: Back in The Good Old Days when programmers did not fear being swamped by bug reports, especially the not-so-great reports, software would carry a global-scoped 'gripe' button, when clicked, a redacted snapshot of the machine state was bundled with whatever they wished to put into the text box, and no reply was expected beyond 'received'. Given the ease of recognizing pure noise in the input, an LLM might coallate a bunch and produce a useful report? False positives happen in support all the time 😅
That kinda puts the #LLM in the 'triangle' position on a #StaffordBeer #VSM diagram, what which measures expected vs actual like a steam-engine governor, reducing Variety to useful patterns and all. 🤔
"The purpose of a system is what it does."
#StaffordBeer, 1926-2002
We live in an economic system that routinely gives more resources to people who make weapons than to doctors and nurses. What does that tell you about the purpose of that system?
The purpose of a system is what it does. It is pointless to insist the purpose is to do what it consistently fails to do.
@hardingar I wanna do cyber with #StaffordBeer! We could exchange tips on beard grooming.
#ConstitutiveRules for guiding the use of the #ViableSystemModel: Reflections on practice - #ScienceDirect #ProblemStructuring #Epistemology #HierarchicalProcessModel #StaffordBeer
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221720304768
@thetyee were I a press pundit, I'd tell #NDP to live up to the name and pillage¹ the platform of #PPoC — @PartiPirate in 2016, especially the digital rights, privacy, and a participatory democracy that, again not-a-pundit me, hints of #StaffordBeer Designing Freedom Massey Lectures on Viable System Models. Not that we want one. A viable system. But whatever…
¹ we wouldn't mind. PPoC did good that year, proud to have been party to it, even if I didn't play WoW after meetings. #oldestintheroom 🤣
@evacide I haven't found the reference to support his claim, but in the Massey Lectures #StaffordBeer claimed to have successfully employed Kindergarten students.
For those late to the cybernetics party, here's a link to a series of Massey Lectures by #StaffordBeer archived by, I know hard to believe today, our very own #CBC from back #whenwewasfab
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819
"There is no one better qualified to model a plant, than the man whose life is spent working in it. He knows. We have constructed a little tool, in the quantified flow chart, and in handing this tool to the workers, we have no technocratic problems."
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-santiago-boys/ep-6-the-geopolitics-of-S84KqFR_X6E/
"There are now competing visions of what exactly cybernetic software is supposed to do. Stafford Beer thinks it's a tool for the people. Others on the team take a more limited view. Seeing it as nothing but an experimental tool for managing the economy. And a prototype really. And a technocratic one at that."
#EvgenyMorozov, 2023
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-santiago-boys/ep-6-the-geopolitics-of-S84KqFR_X6E/
#podcasts #ChoraMedia #TheSantiagoBoys #StaffordBeer #Chile #ProjectCybersyn
Hey @mike_hales, I didn't know you interviewed Stafford Beer during Project Cybersyn!
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-santiago-boys/ep-5-the-super-technocrat-of-P-pdmZza2UN/
“For the first time in the history of man science can do whatever can be exactly specified. Then, also for the first time, we do not have to be scientists to understand what can be done. It follows that we are no longer at the mercy of a technocracy which alone can tell us what to do. Our job is to start specifying.”
— #StaffordBeer Designing Freedom (1977)
#StaffordBeer states the case for a new science of #systemstheory and #cybernetics. Designing Freedom ponders the possibilities of liberty in a cybernetic world.
The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures, "Designing Freedom"
#CBCRadio #radioteledyn #nowplaying
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819
"If we are going to be talking about INTELLIGENT organization…"
try not to notice how old this lecture is
"A viable system is any system organised in such a way as to meet the demands of surviving in the changing environment."
The #ViableSystemModel in 1000 words
https://metaphorum.org/staffords-work/viable-system-model
"Notice what's going on here. [Stafford] Beer and CyberSyn are abandoning the traditional toolkit of Soviet planning. Instead, they're charging towards a new type of socialism, one where realtime data triumphs over archaic planning methods, and that's how it should be.
'Reality is stronger than theory', as [Chilean President Salvador] Allende once said."
#EvgenyMorozov, 2023
https://the-santiago-boys.com/episodes/podcast-002
#podcasts #TheSantiagoBoys #Chile #socialism #EconomicPlanning #StaffordBeer #CyberSyn
Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics as applied to society
The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures, "Designing Freedom" | @CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819
#staffordbeer #viablesystemmodel #cybernetics #government #cbc #whenwewasfab
“Here we all are in a world that all of us think is dying, with governments that all of us think are shits, and we still can’t do anything about it.” Stafford Beer Interviews. Angela Espinosa Interviews Vanilla Beer - September 2023. #StaffordBeer #VSM #CyberSyn
Was #StaffordBeer familiar with #NLS? Would NLS have been a viable platform for #CyberSyn? It didn't require a lot of computers, just 1 for timesharing, right?
I've been listening to Designing Freedom, and i'm falling in love platonically with Stafford Beer
#cybernetics #StaffordBeer
Dive into the journey of the Santiago Boys who dared to dream of an egalitarian economy amidst Cold War tensions. Inspired by Stafford Beer's cybernetics, they challenged tech giants. Their vision survived Pinochet's coup, resonating surprisingly in Silicon Valley. Listen to their story: https://the-santiago-boys.com/about# #Cybernetics #StaffordBeer #HistoryPodcast
@ivy #StaffordBeer and his "Brain of the Firm" very much agree lol
@liaizon Always boost (and tag) #StaffordBeer and #MasseyLectures
