[HN Gopher] The Law of Requisite Variety (2001)
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       The Law of Requisite Variety (2001)
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-03-16 15:05 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | kwatsonafter wrote:
       | I think it's almost criminal how under appreciated this is-- Ross
       | Ashby was able to create self-regulating homeostasis devices
       | using, "analog" equipment in 1948. It's really alarming to me
       | that there seems to be lack of appreciation for the, "cybernetics
       | conferences" period of the development of what we now refer to as
       | Computer Science-- I haven't met a single AI engineer in the
       | field that's familiar with the work of William Grey Walter or
       | John McCarthy (kind of outside scope) and somehow that feels a
       | bit like societal fraud-- It's like a civil engineer not knowing
       | who Archimedes or Issac Newton is or something.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostat
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences
        
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