Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “systems”

Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does

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Avoiding Internet Centralization

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By design, distributed consensus protocols diffuse responsibility for a function among several, difficult-to-identify parties. While this may be an effective way to prevent many kinds of centralization, it also means that making someone accountable for how the function is performed is impossible, beyond the bounds of the protocol's design.¶

Buchanan's Four Orders of Design

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Names, Legal Names, and Fractally Deferred Responsibility | Nora Codes

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Williamson College of the Trades Provides a Path to Good Jobs.

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Burn the Fucking System to the Ground | Popehat

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Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems – Christina Wodtke – Medium

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In one of the classes I teach at CCA, students were confused by mental models, conceptual models, concept maps, etc. I ended up drawing a taxonomy for models on the whiteboard, and it may help…