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Isabel RichardsA bit of what we’re working on at the moment 😊“The Overland Telegraph Line was an organising principle for other infrastructures including the railway, roads, micro-wave, radio towers and even the NBN (National Broadband Network)” and thus “a system which has deeply impacted the ways in which Australian identity is and continues to be articulated.”<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/telegraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#telegraphy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strangwayssprings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strangwayssprings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#innovation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/australianhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#australianhistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a><a href="https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2025/04/02/telegraphy-and-technology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2025/04/02/telegraphy-and-technology/</a>

Paul Giulan<a href="https://federate.social/tags/Scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scientists</a> debate actual weight of the <a href="https://federate.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/weight-of-the-internet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/weight-of-the-internet/</a><a href="https://federate.social/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#information</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#energy</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computer</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerScience</a>

doboprobodyne<a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@glyph</a> I hear you.My favourite (perhaps less jarring?) example is when a court declares they have found someone guilty, and that their threshold of guilt is "on balance of odds".I look at the lawyers and the witnesses and realise that none of them has studied actuarial or probability mathematics. I wouldn't even trust them to understand a bet on the horses. For a scientist to watch them is like observing a cargo cult. Worse, I am sure, is for a scientist to find themselves on the receiving end of such a court.I would offer the meagre consolation that you can see the feedback loops that drive them to behave so, where they think themselves to have free will.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/actuarial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuarial</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/odds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#odds</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maths</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#math</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#statistics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/scientificInquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scientificInquiry</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/systemsArchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsArchitecture</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justice</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#policing</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cargoCult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cargoCult</a>

Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionOp 7 mei komen we weer bijeen met de themagroep Cybernetische Economie en bespreken we de eerste twee hoofdstukken van "The People's Republic of Walmart". Interesse? Meld je aan! 👇 <a href="https://cybernetica.nu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybernetica.nu/</a><a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a>

µPIt's done! I have just given print approval for "Medientechnisches Wissen Vol. 1", 2nd edition. The book, originally published on 2017, grew from 306 to 428 pages - mostly because of an additional chapter on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a>. <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111036540/html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111036540/html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Logics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Logics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InformationTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InformationTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a>

Claudia WestermannTwo more days before the abstract submission portal closes. Join us for *Synthetic Sentience* in Perth, Australia, 16-18 July 2025 – the 5th Politics of the Machines conference. Check the website. It features seven tracks to which you can submit. All abstracts are due on March 29. <a href="https://www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-2025/</a> - Paul Thomas, Chris Speed and I are looking forward to your submissions to Track 01.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/artscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artscience</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/systemicdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemicdesign</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indigenous</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/quantumphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quantumphysics</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a>

Kathy ReidExcellent Sunday afternoon read from Professor <a href="https://fediscience.org/@drmichaellevin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@drmichaellevin</a> for Noema Magazine that takes a look at the metaphors we use to distinguish between organic and non-organic beings and challenges some of the assumptions around what we consider to be machines and/or living things. Very much in the style of Donna Haraway, he advocates at once for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/pragmatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pragmatism</a>, for empirically testing the methods we use for interrogating systems that imbricate the organic and the machine and to keep an open mind when categorising which is which. For fans of Douglas Hofstadter, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a>, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systems</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ConsequentialCategories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConsequentialCategories</a>. <a href="https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are/</a>

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doboprobodyne*edited to add: sorry I see it as base 1 now!<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@kvistgaard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kvistgaard</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@tanishqkumar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tanishqkumar</a> Gosh thank you for telling me about this. If I understand correctly, it's base-0? Are there any articles for lay-readers on it? I regret those I found either explained it as something I'd interpret as base-0, and I found hard to understand how to create and compute abstractions from that foundation, or they seemed aimed at readers who were already thinking in terms of computing with those abstractions, and I was a bit lost!My applications for fast computing would be things like Wide Area Motion Imaging or gimbaled sensors that have to make tiny movements with superb accuracy and speed in order to see things very very far away.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#math</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maths</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/computerVision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computerVision</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mathematics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/telescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#telescope</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/telescopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#telescopes</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/electroOptic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electroOptic</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/electroOptics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electroOptics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/sensors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sensors</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a>

Karsten SchmidtTo all who’re criticizing itself the mounting criticism of LLMs and who'd rather like to emphasize these models can also be used for good:POSIWID (aka The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does) is very much applicable here, i.e. there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”.[1]For the moment (and I don’t detect _any_ signs of this changing), LLMs conceptually and the way they’re handled technologically/politically, are harmful, more than anything, regardless of other potential/actual use cases. In a non-capitalist, solarpunk timeline this all might look very different, but we’re _absolutely not_ in that world. It’s simply ignorant and impossible to only consider LLM benefits anecdotally or abstractly, detached from their implementation, their infrastructure required for training, the greed, the abuse, the waste of resources (and resulting conflicts), the inflation, disinformation, and tangible threats (with already real impacts) to climate, energy, rights, democracy, society, life etc. These aren't hypotheticals — not anymore!A basic cost-benefit analysis:In your eyes, are the benefits of LLMs worth these above costs? Could these benefits & time savings have been achieved in other ways? Do you truly believe a “democratization of skills” is achievable via the hyper-centralization of resources, whilst actively harvesting and then removing the livelihood and rights of entire demographics? You’re feeling so very productive with your copilot subscription, how about funding FLOSS projects instead and help building sustainable/supportive communities? How about investing $500 billions into education/science/arts?Cybernetics was all about feedback loops, recursion, considering the effects of a system and studying their influence on subsequent actions/iterations. Technologists (incl. my younger self) have made the mistake/choice ignoring tech’s impact in the world for far too long. For this field to truly move forward and become more holistic, empathetic and ethical, it _must_ stop treating the above aspects as distracting inconvenient truths and start addressing them head on, start considering secondary and tertiary effects of our actions, and use those to guide us! Neglecting or actively denying their importance and the more-than-fair criticism without ever being able to produce equally important counter examples/reasons just make us look ignorant of the larger picture... Same goes for education/educators in related disciplines!Nothing about LLMs is inevitable per se. There’s always a decision and for each decision we have to ask who’s behind it, for what purposes, who stands to benefit and where do we stand with these. Sure, like any other tech, LLMs are “just a tool”, unbiased in theory, usable for both positive and negative purposes. But, we’ve got to ask ourselves at which point a “tool” has attracted & absorbed a primary purpose/form as a weapon (incl. usage in a class war), and any other humanist aspects have become mere nice-to-have side effects, great for greenwashing, and — for some — surfing the hype curve, while it lasts. We’ve got to ask at which point LLMs currently are on this spectrum and in which direction they’re actively accelerating (are being accelerated)...(Ps. Like many others, for many years I’ve been fascinated by, building and using AI/ML techniques in many projects. I started losing interest shortly after the introduction of GANs and the non-stop demand for exponentially increasing hardware resources and obvious ways how this tech will be used in ever more damaging ways... So my criticism isn’t against AI as general field of research, but about what is currently sold as AI and how it’s being pushed onto us, for reasons which actually have not much to do with AI itself, other than being a powerful excuse/lever for enabling empire building efforts and possible societal upheavals...)[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does</a><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/NoteToSelf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoteToSelf</a>

µPClaude <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shannon</a> about his mouse Theseus' "singing condition": <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Maze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maze</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Robot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a>

doboprobodyne<a href="https://mastodon.social/@tanishqkumar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tanishqkumar</a> This one-bit LLM thing sounds bananas! Can't wait for more useful LLMs I can run privately on trivial hardware with +++ context. My silly question as a statistics and quantum-physics ignoramous is: will it be even more cool with qubits rather than regular bits when qubits get cheap?<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Physics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quantum</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Statistics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a>

Isabel RichardsNew paper on the telegraph line is out! It’s a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microhistory</a> of Strangways Springs//Pangki Warruna, exploring its evolution from a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pastoral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pastoral</a> property to a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/telegraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#telegraph</a> station to a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/railway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#railway</a> stop, and how these transitions shaped innovation in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> 🤩📝We also highlight the importance of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> in creating and sustaining these innovations (as is the case for technologies of today like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> 😉).<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-025-00788-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-025-00788-4</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openaccess</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#techhistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemsthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsthinking</a>

Human Restoration ProjectNEW EPISODE: Just as someone steering a ship adjusts the rudder based on feedback from the ocean, so too does good pedagogy depend on what our guest today, biology teacher Christian Moore-Anderson, calls “recursive teaching”, or a constant feedback loop of action, interpretation, and learning between teachers and students. www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/sensemaking-and-cybernetics-in-classroom-teaching-w-christian-moore-anderson <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/K12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#K12</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/edchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#edchat</a>

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️New, Chemical View of Ecosystems <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-chemical-view-of-ecosystems-20250305" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-chemical-view-of-ecosystems-20250305</a>Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions among species. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SystemsBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SystemsBiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/keystoneSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#keystoneSpecies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KeystoneMolecules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KeystoneMolecules</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biosignaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biosignaling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biocommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biocommunication</a>

kvistgaardThe majority of the AI users are third-order observers, and some are fourth-order observers.Second and fourth-order observations invite gaming the system.<a href="https://www.linkandth.ink/p/ai-enables-fourth-order-observations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.linkandth.ink/p/ai-enables-fourth-order-observations</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a>

Scott Williams 🐧I don't know why I never connected Kubernetes and cybernetics being from the same Greek word. I definitely recognized Kubernetes as Greek, but it wasn't until I saw cybernetics written in Russian that I realized they were from the same word.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kubernetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kubernetes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russian</a>

Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionWe just had our session on "Cybernetic economics for the 21st century", with a talk by Tom O'Brien and a Q&A afterwards!<a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdEEnT6ldI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdEEnT6ldI</a>

Kathy ReidInteresting Economic Index paper from Anthropic, based on 1m+ Claude.AI conversations. Analysed through O*NET classifications, shows <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> use in over 36% of occupations. Thoughts: 1. This analysis would ordinarily be undertaken by government labour departments. Analysis of the use of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> tools is now predicated on companies releasing this data. Anthropic has released *some* of the data used for analysis - but not all - e.g. the actual prompts.<a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anthropic/EconomicIndex" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anthropic/EconomicIndex</a>2. This data is linked to US occupational classifications (O*NET), and AFAICT, there is no way to identify in the dataset (I looked) what the geography of the user is. That means this analysis can't be used to analyse **Australian** patterns of AI use - which links to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/sovereignAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sovereignAI</a> discourse.3. Given Anthropic's outsized role in the industry, and the push for adoption by e.g. Microsoft of tools like e.g. CoPilot, I wonder if this economic analysis will become a *target* - following Goodhart's Law. Which would increase AI usage, which would benefit Anthropic.4. I found the distinction between automation and augmentation in this analysis useful. Drawing from <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a>, automation can be viewed as first-order - the user directs the intent. Augmentation is more reflexive, with the intent negotiated. What are the implications of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> involvement here?5. The pattern of increasing use among higher-skilled professions - up to the cliff of those requiring advanced degrees (e.g. surgeons) where usage dropped off - indicates to me that advanced degrees still provide a "moat" - but for how long?6. I really loved the feedback form Anthropic provided for researchers to suggest new research directions and to give feedback on the format of the dataset that was released. This connects research with practice - praxis.<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDEdY-mT5lcXPaDSv-0Ci1rSXGlbIJierxkUbNB7_07-kddw/viewform" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDEdY-mT5lcXPaDSv-0Ci1rSXGlbIJierxkUbNB7_07-kddw/viewform</a> ➡️ <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index</a>

Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionVandaag hadden we onze vijfde sessie waarin we het boek Grondbeginselen der Communistische Productie en Distributie bespraken. De opname staat nu online.<a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1L_IwwoigU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1L_IwwoigU</a>

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