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cybernetics

Technical Turbulence: Runaway Entropy

Each extra node, option, or shortcut in a socio-technical communication system expands the state space—it introduces another degree of freedom. Entropy here is not just noise or disorder but the measure of multiplicity: more ways for things to happen, more ways for things to go wrong. Technology, in its hunger for novelty and feature-set expansion, […]

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culture

Statistically Hipster

Counter-cultures that become popular inevitably invalidate themselves. You cannot actually exist on the periphery when everyone else inhabits the same space.