We remain perfectly capable of making catastrophically short-sighted decisions all by ourselves. The technology simply amplifies the incentives we have already normalised.
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optimise this
Category: cybernetics
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knot clever: machine learning
The road to hell is paved with greedy algorithms.
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à plus tard
Enduring systems do not survive by resisting change, but by metabolising its consequences into temporary coherence.
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systems thinking
A school can teach systems thinking and still fail to recognise the system it has become. The paradox is not educational but civilisational: systems routinely develop the capacity to analyse (and acknowledge) everything except the conditions that organise and sustain their own perception.
Civilisations fall into rhythms, and changing those rhythms changes the futures they can sustain.
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Applied Field Logic: Why?
The aim of Applied Field Logic is to provide a common mathematical language for describing (ie systemic) patterns of organised persistence.
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technology: we have a problem…
Technology does not merely change the world. It changes the conditions under which future technologies arrive and thrive.
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what is economic reality?
Economic reality is not found in the cash register. It is found in the relational field that makes the register mean anything at all.
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system dynamics: non-linearity
Non-linearity is rarely an explanation in itself. More often, it is a sign that causal structure is richer than our current description captures.
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Applied Field Logic: Climate Change
We require forms of language capable of representing continuity without losing the ability to act locally within it, models capable of preserving the relationship between part and whole without reducing one to the other.
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political role play
Modern political systems often reward symbolic fluency over systems literacy. The result is a governing class skilled at hierarchy, performance, and institutional ritual, but poorly equipped to understand the complex, recursive problems it claims to manage.
The technology sector is learning to metabolise its own disorder: turning instability into dependency, and dependency back into revenue.
