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"Designing Freedom", by #staffordBeer

Cute pdf I found of the text from the talks WITH nice hand-drawn pictures!

https://monoskop.org/images/e/e3/Beer_Stafford_Designing_Freedom.pdf

But I do recommend listening to Beer speak instead of reading :)

https://archive.org/details/DesigningFreedom_CBC_Lectures

#cybernetics #drawing
A picture of many stick figures sitting on poles in a circle. They hold a string which is connect to all the others string in the middle... like the spokes of a bike meeting the axle. From this "axle" is one more string with a weight on it it. The weighted string is shown to be spinning or unstable. A cat watches the weight.

Designing Freedom: The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures : Stafford Beer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Essays from Stafford Beer's Designing Freedom, read by the author for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1973.Description from CBC Radio:Distinguished...
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#drawing #cybernetics #StaffordBeer
Doug Webb
@liaizon I'm pretty sure you alerted me to the talks. Did you see these cute stick people before?
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wakest
I did! I even used the same image in my post about it ages ago
Doug Webb
ohhhh! Well I'm glad to have found it. Makes it a bit easier to understand what's going on...

I found that doc after watching this talk, where this guy presents a slackbot he created for cybernetic task allocation in a shared house which I think is actually quite cool

https://archive.org/details/kronovet-metagov-20230329

Chat-bot boarding house: applications of digital governance to physical communities (Daniel Kronovet) : Metagovernance Seminar : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

There are many hard problems associated with digital governance of virtual space, driven by the fluid and weakly-connected populations being governed. By...
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