Category Archives: Discussion
A view or perspective on the world
Nick Land, Ryan Haecker, and the Problem of Cybernetic Consciousness
The Viable Change Framework: Linking Theory of Change and Organisational Viability for Quality Enhancement in Higher Education
The Firm Grip and the Light Hand – Jose (2026)
ASHBY’S LABORATORY | AN INTRODUCTION TO CYBERNETICS | CHAPTERS 03—06 – Shadow Rebbe (2026)
[A nice use of vibe coding]
ASHBY’S LABORATORY | AN INTRODUCTION TO CYBERNETICS | CHAPTERS 03—06
Ashby’s Laboratory — Learn by experimenting
Glossary ↗
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56 EXPERIMENTS · FOUR INDEPENDENT CHAPTERS
Learn the machine.
By changing it.
Predict, wire, disturb, and investigate. Discover Ashby’s concepts through his exercises, with corrections that show exactly where a prediction breaks.
Enter chapter 3 ↗
How the lab works
Hezen 2.0 – Treister (2009-2011) | cybernetic tarot
https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html
| HEXEN 2.0 Suzanne Treister 2009-2011HEXEN 2.0 looks into histories of scientific research behind government programmes of mass control, investigating parallel histories of countercultural and grass roots movements. HEXEN 2.0 charts, within a framework of post-WWII U.S. governmental and military imperatives, the coming together of scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, the history of the internet, the rise of Web 2.0 and increased intelligence gathering, and implications for the future of new systems of societal manipulation towards a control society.HEXEN 2.0 specifically investigates the participants of the seminal Macy Conferences (1946-1953), whose primary goal was to set the foundations for a general science of the workings of the human mind. The project simultaneously looks at diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to advances in technology including the claims of Anarcho-Primitivism and Post Leftism, Theodore Kaczynski/The Unabomber, Technogaianism and Transhumanism, and traces precursory ideas such as those of Thoreau, Warren, Heidegger and Adorno in relation to visions of utopic and dystopic futures from science-fiction literature and film.Based on actual events, people, histories and scientific projections of the future, and consisting of alchemical diagrams, a Tarot deck, photo-text works, a video and a website, HEXEN 2.0 offers a space where one may use the works as a tool to envision possible alternative futures. Also see: essay by Lars Bang Larsen |
Bernhard Sterchi – Complexity Theory and Neo-Kantian Theory of Science – Tuesday, Oct 20 · 5:00pm UK time, The Complexity Lounge, online
Where are the systems in ‘systems leadership’? Leaderism, personal development, and the work of changing systems – Taylor (2026)
Steven Hertzberg on LinkedIn – ‘AI research has rediscovered the Macy Conferences, and again without any attribution’
AI research has rediscovered the Macy Conferences, and again without any attribution.
Epiplexity (epistemic complexity)
“Epiplexity (epistemic complexity) is a formal information-theoretic framework introduced by researchers at NYU and CMU to measure learnable structure for computationally bounded systems like neural networks. It fundamentally challenges classical Shannon entropy by accounting for observer limitations.”
“Core Framework Paradoxes Solved
- Deterministic Functions: Explains how deterministic simulations generate new, learnable structural information for bounded observers.
- Sequence Dependence: Accounts for data order and training curricula, which classical symmetric metrics ignore.
- Inductive Biases: Focuses on the structural shortcuts internalized during training rather than pure distribution matching.”
Primary Resources
- Research Paper: Read the foundational paper on arXiv: From Entropy to Epiplexity
- Source Code: Explore the PyTorch/JAX implementation on GitHub: epiplexity
- Video Lecture: Watch Andrew Gordon Wilson’s presentation on YouTube: Epiplexity for OOD Generalization
- Launch Discussion: Review the community reception on LinkedIn: Epiplexity Announcement Thread
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