The new Vile Brain Samples single includes this take on "Connected" - a look at the tech revolution 1970s Chile could have had via Allende and #Cybersyn. Written with Andrew Walton, originally for his Viable System Model EP.
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#newmusic #staffordbeer #dancemusic
Se que #StaffordBeer hizo un intento de aplicación de los principios cibernéticos a la planificación empresarial...pero creo que hay aún MUCHA más profundidad en el #CiberComunismo.
Page 193 of Dan Davies' book The Unaccountability Machine. The chapter title is "Meanwhile, in Chile."
I expect this passage will be relevant to the USA in both the near and distant future, and all points in between. #cybernetics #DanDavies #StaffordBeer #Chile
"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?
#SystemsThinking #DeathDrive
From that time Stafford Beer decided the best way to describe class war would be with a nifty little diagram.
#Potatonetic #ClassWar #StaffordBeer
From that time Stafford Beer decided the best way to describe class war would be with a nifty little diagram.
#Cybernetic #ClassWar #StaffordBeer
Beyond Project Cybersyn: Tracing the Influence of Stafford Beer Projects and Ideas in Latin America
We've uncovered Stafford Beer's fascinating but overlooked projects across Latin America spanning four decades
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Cybernetics #StaffordBeer #LatinAmerica #OpenAccess
“The business of trying to ensure #adaptation now needs to be institutionalised in the same way that physical manufacturing has been.” #cybernetics #StaffordBeer open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
This is amazing, because I was just thinking about #StaffordBeer earlier this month, and Chile's Cybersyn.
www.lesswrong.com/posts/YBbcKg...
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/project-cybe...
Using Stafford Beer’s idea of eudemony—human flourishing—I examine whether leftists should reclaim AI or abandon it. Spoiler: Technology isn't the enemy; capitalism's misuse of it is.
#AI #StaffordBeer #Eudemony #Leftism #Socialism
news.theicemachine.net/designing-de...
Wow. That resonates.
#cybernetics #StaffordBeer
"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."
#StaffordBeer
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"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 […]
the purpose of a system is what it does
#staffordbeer
#hexentarot
#suzannetreister
Hey @mike_hales, I didn't know you interviewed Stafford Beer during Project Cybersyn!
www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-santiago-bo...
#podcasts #TheSantiagoBoys #StaffordBeer #ProjectCybersyn
Jenna Sutela's Pond Brain (inspired by Stafford Beer's experiments with biological computers)
jennasutela.com
#staffordbeer #cybernetics