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Dangerous Secret Science Club

@technosophists

A Cybernetics study group, convening biweekly on X Spaces.

Joined May 2025
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On Sunday, October 18th, 2PM ET, we will cover chapters 3-4 of Ashby's "Introduction to Cybernetics." See comments for PDF and link to the Spaces discussion.
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Marianne
@thrialecticsOct 28
Get in losers we're learning Promise Theory and Semantic Spacetime.
Mark Burgess (@markburgess_osl) profile pictureMark Burgess
@markburgess_osl28 Jan 2023
Weekend Thread - Promise Theory Intro (PT) ---- 1. PT is a general theory about the mechanics of abstract "agents" and their "intended" behaviours, i.e. processes. It was originally proposed as a model for Computer Networks, but has since been applied to many different scenarios.
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Sunday, November 1st at 2PM ET, we're covering Ashby's Introduction to Cybernetics Chapters 3-4. PDF of text in comments. See you then! teapawt.org/i/spaces/1oJMvNWlbORxQ

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@thrialecticsOct 17
No Intro to Cybernetics Ch. 3-4 Discussion tomorrow. Will resume in 2 weeks!
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PDF: ashby.info/Ashby-Introductio…
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We are reading Ashby's Introduction to Cybernetics over the next two months, meeting Sunday, October 4th at 2PM ET to discuss the Preface and Chapters 1-4. PDF and Spaces links in comments.
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Jürgen Schmidhuber
@SchmidhuberAISep 20
In 1956, Cybernetics was renamed "AI" by logic programming experts. Now Trump wants to rename AI again. Let's revive the old name! Modern AI is about neural nets & deep learning, closer to Cybernetics than to 1956 AI. Plus, Cybernetics sounds better than Artificial Intelligence.
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Today, 2PM ET. No readings for today, just discussion about what our next text will be. We're looking for something first-order and technical this time.
Marianne (@thrialectics) profile pictureMarianne
@thrialecticsSep 18
Join us Sunday 2PM ET for a group discussion to decide on which text we will read next in Dangerous Secret Science Club (@technosophists). Control Theory? Ashby? Or Something Else? teapawt.org/i/spaces/1YxNrbjRwrOxw

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@thrialecticsSep 18
Join us Sunday 2PM ET for a group discussion to decide on which text we will read next in Dangerous Secret Science Club (@technosophists). Control Theory? Ashby? Or Something Else? teapawt.org/i/spaces/1YxNrbjRwrOxw

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Discussion in about 2 hours!
Marianne (@thrialectics) profile pictureMarianne
@thrialecticsAug 29
Finishing up Cybernetics Chat readings from Bateson tomorrow, follow @technosophists for details: teapawt.org/i/spaces/1OGwbnBnBZvKB

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Update: This Space will be next week on Sunday, September 6th at 2PM.
Marianne (@thrialectics) profile pictureMarianne
@thrialecticsAug 29
Finishing up Cybernetics Chat readings from Bateson tomorrow, follow @technosophists for details: teapawt.org/i/spaces/1OGwbnBnBZvKB

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@thrialecticsAug 29
Finishing up Cybernetics Chat readings from Bateson tomorrow, follow @technosophists for details: teapawt.org/i/spaces/1OGwbnBnBZvKB

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@thrialecticsAug 16
If you have been attending the Cybernetics Reading Group discussions, would you take a min to send me your feedback at admonymous.co/byemarianne? I'd love your thoughts on the readings, the discussion/facilitation, and the pacing/structure.
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A very dangerous, secret science...
wordgrammer (@wordgrammer) profile picturewordgrammer
@wordgrammerAug 12
Cybernetics is astrology for men
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The next discussion on Bateson's "Steps to Ecology of Mind" will be 3 weeks out this time: Sunday, August 30th, 2PM ET. Prepare by reading the papers titled "Conscious Purpose versus Nature" and "From Versailles to Cybernetics."
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