Stafford Beer

John Gruber, writing on Daring Fireball, invoked the 50-year-old systems theory maxim POSIWID to argue that the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) imposes unnecessary bureaucracy on major markets, a claim…

A new analysis applies Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM) from cybernetics to AI safety, translating its five levels of hierarchical agency through an Active Inference lens. The author, who rem…

A critic argues that AI is inherently fascist, but the author refutes this by pointing out that the politics of a system depend on its operator, not the technology itself. Evidence from open-source mo…