Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer

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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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