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@icedquinn depends on what the book is about. I don't think we have any good cybernetics interfaces right now except for electrode pickups for prosthesis
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@s8n its actually just the study of systems that operate in closed loops
cybersyn was more or less the birthplace of cybernetics engineering, amusingly enough
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@s8n its so weird to hear a technocratic socialist whos like "government is fucking dumb bro, programming computers for unlimited freedom is where its at" like :blobcatez: holy shit you guys exist
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@s8n i'd have to hear where he's going with it. so far all i've heard is him going on about having to cope with the variable behavior of people
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@icedquinn that was a valid opinion before we implemented it and it failed
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@s8n they were trying to figure out how to do the opposite of that, though. cybersyn architects were very adamant the end goal was autonomous collectives
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@icedquinn any system will essentially be a game where the goal is to maintain the system. But there's a metagame and people will always play it to gain an advantage. If there is a hierarchy of any kind, fighting over control of it will eventually result in collapse of the system. It's probably mathematically provable