Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: systems

11 bookmarks tagged “systems

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.¶

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…

Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web

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Principia Cybernetica tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies.