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It seems like "perception, planning, control" is used for autonomous vehicles? That's all I see when I google it. Boyd outlined OODA in the 1970s, so it's "nove
by jfarmer 6y ago
It seems like "perception, planning, control" is used for autonomous vehicles? That's all I see when I google it. Boyd outlined OODA in the 1970s, so it's "novel" in the sense that it came ~30 years earlier.
From a human perspective, I think the novelty is that that it focuses attention on hard-to-see aspects of decision-making. It's not about the quality of any given decision, but about your ability to keep the song going and evolving in the right direction.
If you read Boyd's original material, he doesn't reallllllly see it as a loop. Every "node" in the process can feed back into previous parts. The focus is more on rhythm, tempo, beats.
He almost always writes "Loop" with quotes. A slide directly from him: https://share.getcloudapp.com/L1uN1RAJ https://share.getcloudapp.com/L1uN1RAJ
It's really worth reading Boyd directly. His picture is way more interesting and nuanced than "just go through the OODA loop faster". It's more like: you want to make it hard for your opponent to keep the beat.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Boyd outlined OODA in the 1970s Every source I find says sometime in the mid-1950s. (The vagueness seems to be because he published very little, and the OODA loop was presented predominantly in oral brieifings; most of his writings that have been published or mined by other writers weren't intended for publication, but are briefing notes.)
- jfarmer 6y agoHe would've been 23 in 1950, so that seems unlikely. Nothing from the 50s listed here: https://www.colonelboyd.com/boydswork https://www.colonelboyd.com/boydswork AFAIK you first see the core concerns driven home here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58a3add7e3df28d9fbff4501/t/58a4a32ce4fcb5d8f00b7243/1487184684871/Destruction+and+Creation_3+Sep+1976.pdf https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58a3add7e3df28d9fbff4...
- AndrewKemendo 6y agoOODA was formalized in the 1960-70s with his destruction and creation briefing/seminar, and later EM theory work. However Boyd came up with the theory in the 1950s while he was a fighter instructor at Fighter Weapons School (TOP GUN for the Air Force).