Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer
a fascinating account of the potential of #cybernetics from the 1973 edition of CBC Massey Lectures
listen to the original on https://archive.org/details/DesigningFreedom_CBC_Lectures
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or read it transcribed on https://monoskop.org/images/e/e3/Beer_Stafford_Designing_Freedom.pdf
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@liaizon
Agreed. It would also be interesting to tease out some of the details in Fedi-related systems, as Stafford Beer does in his own systems.
That would be a longer conversation…
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@bhaugen @technology I really highly recommend listening to Beer’s whole lecture linked above if you have a spare 3 hours sometime. I would love to discuss it more, it feels very relevant to the current time
@liaizon 3 hours is hard to spare these days. Maybe we can pick away at them as bedtime podcasts, at the risk of falling asleep…
I’ll read more of that text, though. I can speed-read to some extent, at least much faster than listening to somebody talk.
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@bhaugen @liaizon @technology I started listening, found the diction and timbre of Beers very enjoyabe! Hope to be able to listen to em all