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cybernetics

Signal as Delay: Information Propagation Dynamics

The present turbulence in politics, economics, and public life often looks like a collision of personalities or ideologies, yet a quieter transformation has been unfolding beneath those visible disputes. Human communication has expanded far beyond the scale of the individuals who participate in it, stretching through satellites, fibre networks, cloud infrastructure, and algorithmic systems until […]

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cybernetics

Alignment

It has probably always been the case that seeking respite from the endless surge of unhinged political stupidity feels futile, exasperating, and frightening. Watching poorly understood belief systems grind on, reproducing themselves through humanity as distributed patterns of alignment within the communicative field rather than arising from deliberate, individual choice, is unsettling. The fear comes […]