@technosophists

A Cybernetics study group, convening biweekly on X Spaces.

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On Sunday, October 18th, 2PM ET, we will cover chapters 3-4 of Ashby's "Introduction to Cybernetics." See comments for PDF and link to the Spaces discussion.
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Sunday, November 1st at 2PM ET, we're covering Ashby's Introduction to Cybernetics Chapters 3-4. PDF of text in comments. See you then! xitter.cf/i/spaces/1oJMvNWlbORxQ

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Marianne in SF Nov. 5-10
@thrialecticsOct 17
No Intro to Cybernetics Ch. 3-4 Discussion tomorrow. Will resume in 2 weeks!
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We are reading Ashby's Introduction to Cybernetics over the next two months, meeting Sunday, October 4th at 2PM ET to discuss the Preface and Chapters 1-4. PDF and Spaces links in comments.
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Jürgen Schmidhuber
@SchmidhuberAISep 20
In 1956, Cybernetics was renamed "AI" by logic programming experts. Now Trump wants to rename AI again. Let's revive the old name! Modern AI is about neural nets & deep learning, closer to Cybernetics than to 1956 AI. Plus, Cybernetics sounds better than Artificial Intelligence.
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Today, 2PM ET. No readings for today, just discussion about what our next text will be. We're looking for something first-order and technical this time.
Marianne in SF Nov. 5-10
@thrialecticsSep 18
Join us Sunday 2PM ET for a group discussion to decide on which text we will read next in Dangerous Secret Science Club (@technosophists). Control Theory? Ashby? Or Something Else? xitter.cf/i/spaces/1YxNrbjRwrOxw

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Marianne in SF Nov. 5-10
@thrialecticsSep 18
Join us Sunday 2PM ET for a group discussion to decide on which text we will read next in Dangerous Secret Science Club (@technosophists). Control Theory? Ashby? Or Something Else? xitter.cf/i/spaces/1YxNrbjRwrOxw

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Discussion in about 2 hours!
Marianne in SF Nov. 5-10
@thrialecticsAug 29
Finishing up Cybernetics Chat readings from Bateson tomorrow, follow @technosophists for details: xitter.cf/i/spaces/1OGwbnBnBZvKB

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Update: This Space will be next week on Sunday, September 6th at 2PM.
Marianne in SF Nov. 5-10
@thrialecticsAug 29
Finishing up Cybernetics Chat readings from Bateson tomorrow, follow @technosophists for details: xitter.cf/i/spaces/1OGwbnBnBZvKB

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Dangerous Secret Science Club retweeted
Marianne in SF Nov. 5-10
@thrialecticsAug 29
Finishing up Cybernetics Chat readings from Bateson tomorrow, follow @technosophists for details: xitter.cf/i/spaces/1OGwbnBnBZvKB

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Marianne in SF Nov. 5-10
@thrialecticsAug 16
If you have been attending the Cybernetics Reading Group discussions, would you take a min to send me your feedback at admonymous.co/byemarianne? I'd love your thoughts on the readings, the discussion/facilitation, and the pacing/structure.
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A very dangerous, secret science...
wordgrammer
@wordgrammerAug 12
Cybernetics is astrology for men
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The next discussion on Bateson's "Steps to Ecology of Mind" will be 3 weeks out this time: Sunday, August 30th, 2PM ET. Prepare by reading the papers titled "Conscious Purpose versus Nature" and "From Versailles to Cybernetics."
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"Now I suggest that the last hundred years have demonstrated empirically that if an organism or aggregate of organisms sets to work with a focus on its own survival and thinks that that is the way to select its adaptive moves, its "progress" ends up-
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-with a destroyed environment. If the organism ends up destroying its environment, it has in fact destroyed itself. And we may very easily see this process carried to its ultimate reductio ad absurdum in the next twenty years." — Gregory Bateson (Form, Substance, and Difference)
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