Ahh, roger, thank you! That's a really useful explanation; yes, I see why slapOS in and of itself won't cut the mustard. Gosh, I can see why we need this capability from a strategic/geopolitical point of view. Indeed not just Europe; any competent government should want to make sure feedback-loops were set up so that they did not inadvertently lose "digital sovereignty" in such a manner here illustrated.
Started a new starter pack on cybernetic communists with currently myself and @ida_zeitoekonomie
I can't add @cibcom as they restricted discoverability and cannot be added.
If you know more accounts or would like to be added, let me know!
…and they’re finally synergizing #Nuclear with #AI 
! So much *friction* from the #LudditeCore who keep screeching that it’s “#Colonial” or “#Deadly”??? Newsflash: everything’s colonial until we optimize it!
Nuclear isn’t just #GreenEnergy — it’s #NeoGreen™! 
Those “waste” isotopes? Literally future blockchain fuel! 
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And yes, obviously profits get privatized — that’s called #IncentiveAlignment! 
Society “bearing costs”? Try #CollectiveROI!
Ugh, the legacy mindsets complaining about “#PlanetRisk”… as if our #AIOverlords (bless their algos 
) won’t retroactively solve radiogenic decay by 2035! #TrustTheTechRoadmap!
#TESCREALbros get it: #Cybernetics guarantees all problems are just pre-scaled tech opportunities! 
= future desalination juice! 
Poverty? Fixed with SMRs! 
War? Deleted by fusion! 
#TheFutureIsASolvedEquation!
Stay vibing in the solution space, haters stay in problem-space! 
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@tante
…and they are trying to bring back #nuclear with #AI …
While #nuclearenergy is not #fossil it not #green at all - but #colonial , #deadly & totally unfair because, like in AI, the #profits are being privatised, the costs are hitting the whole #society & the #planet
But from the point of view of someone believing in #cybernetics or one of its #TESCREAL grandchildren it is great - because in cybernetics EVERY problem will be solved in "the future" by "technology"
"The major problems in the world are the differences in how nature works and how people think."
-- Gregory Bateson
I am quite interested in what French marxists would have to say about cybernetics in the early 1960s, but ofcourse this turns out to be a collection of translated texts by Soviet and other Warsaw pact cyberneticians. Also interesting but not what I (no doubt naively) expected.
Dulmini Perera's text "Orders of change: Mary Catherine Bateson on ecological thinking, narrative practices and attending to worlds in transformation" was recently made open access.
Enjoy it at Intellect Discover: https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00119_1
The article highlights MC Bateson's cybernetic practice of working with narratives in order to cultivate better understandings and responses to change at the level of both societies and individuals.
It's an interesting point you highlight because I've never thought of things through that paradigm. Now that I see it, I realise I'm hoping to transition to #openBSD because I believe of mainstream operating systems, it probably has the best #DX.
In this particular case, I believe that the developers exploit that in order to optimise for what might be called #security which impresses me.
I realise it's probably an outlier in this regard!
Whether you're a gamer or not, what #grindinggeargames has accomplished with #pathofexile is extremely noteworthy. With the recent patch, 3.26, they've seamlessly integrated a massively complicated new system of mercenaries, who have their own abilities but can be kitted out with gear however you choose, into a game that was already notorious for its complexity. All while continuing to smooth out some of the rough edges.
One thing I am absolutely certain of is if we reviewed their development process and cycle, we would find that they are integrating feedback into a tightly-iterative process to a degree that most software firms will frankly never be able to attain. I think anyone who has a passing interest in quality should be getting extremely curious about how they have managed to consistently deliver incredible experiences. Particularly when they absolutely have some releases that land like a wet turd and they mitigate, correct, and learn from to a degree that you just don't see from other software companies.
I only have the totally outside view here, but whatever processes they have designed are more effective than just about anyone else in software design today.
One of the very rare (is it the only one ?) books on cybernetics that appeared in Dutch before the 1960s, published in 1959 by the neurophysiologist S.T.Bok. Didn't realize there was a Dutch word for 'negative feedback': "tegenkoppeling", which translates as 'counterlinking'.
The responsibility of the observer extends through time. Ethics is primarily oriented toward the future.
#cybernetics #ethics #SystemsThinking
Former Ballerina and now Artist who builds sound creating devices, Ioana Vreme Moser, on some of her devices, including Fluid Computers (using water and/or air instead of electricity):
I realized I have very little idea of the early reception (and development ?) of cybernetics in The Netherlands, but this is the earliest text I found so far: Fred Polak was the director of the Central Bureau of Economic Planning and in the late 1940s he travelled to the US where he was very much impressed by the first computers and the work of Wiener, Rashevsky and Shannon.
