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Stuff like Ashby's ouvre is forgotten because it wasn't true. Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety? Not a law. Just a flowery proposition. The Good Regulator Theore
by carrolldunham 4y ago
Stuff like Ashby's ouvre is forgotten because it wasn't true. Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety? Not a law. Just a flowery proposition. The Good Regulator Theorem? Not a theorem, and not true. Just a Sokal-like appropriation of technical terms and mathematical argumentation style. I don't know where the presumable founding blog-post was, but there has been formed a subset of software engineers who, not being quite technical enough to see that this stuff is b.s., laud it as tragically overlooked. This comment is this phenomenon right on-the-nose
- reyman 4y agoSorry i disagree, WR Ashby was a great pioneer on many aspect, even if this is not law... http://www.rossashby.info/ http://www.rossashby.info/ contain so much interesting content. Also please, look at the (huge) work of Manfred Drack and David Pouvreau (thesis of 1000 pages, David Pouvreau is a french mathemacian : https://www.theses.fr/174821581 https://www.theses.fr/174821581) on LW Bertalanfy and the important role of Ashby.