David Ing

Through ecosystems ecology, I learned more about from than anyone else in the community. His final work:

Curtin, Charles G., and Timothy F. H. Allen, eds. 2018. _Complex Ecology: Foundational Perspectives on Dynamic Approaches to Ecology and Conservation_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781108235754 .

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David Ing

Peer reviewed article on "Rethinking work, with the pandemic disruption: Metatheorizing with world hypotheses and systems changes” with published in International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, after 2 years in revisions, editor
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Thinking about contribution for March 15, towards October in Toronto.

> The intent-to-submit period for papers closes on March 15, 2025. This is a two-stage process: no new submissions will be accepted after March 15, and final submissions are due by 23:59 GMT on April 30.

rsdsymposium.org/call-for-syst

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Audio recordings + 2 GenAI summaries of Evolving Styles for Learning Systems Thinking at Ontario @ocad with @daviding@daviding.com , moderated by
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Types of use of Gen AI cites poster session by IBM Research.

> We describe current LLM usages across three categories: creation, information, and advice.

Michelle Brachman, Amina El-Ashry, Casey Dugan, and Werner Geyer.
2024. How Knowledge Workers Use and Want to Use LLMs in an Enterprise
Context. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM,
New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. doi.org/10.1145/3613905.365084

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Maybe Gen AI is better for those who trust it the least.

> Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking. Qualitatively, GenAI shifts the nature of critical thinking toward information verification, response integration, and task stewardship. Our insights reveal new design challenges and opportunities for developing GenAI tools for knowledge work.

"The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers", Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, et al. | Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2025 microsoft.com/en-us/research/p

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A retired IBMer goes shopping at Costco in Toronto, Canada:

> Standing in front of a freezer filled with riced cauliflower on Monday, Michael Orr squinted at an $11.49 bag of frozen vegetables. He was trying to decipher, from the tiny print on the bag, whether it had been produced in the United States. He and his wife had agreed before coming to the store that they would adopt a Buy Canadian approach.

> “I’m very angry about the actions the U.S. is taking,” said the otherwise mild-mannered retiree, leaning against the handle of his cart. Mr. Orr had been following the news closely, and U.S. President Donald Trump had not yet announced a pause on his threat of tariffs on Canadian imports.

> Mr. Orr said he doesn’t consider himself anti-American. He worked for IBM – even lived for a time in the U.S.

> “If anything, I’m quite pro-American. But the situation right now, I just find intolerable.”

> In his cart was a two-pound bag of Balzac’s coffee – an Ontario-based company. He’d chosen it over his usual Kirkland brand beans, which are roasted in the U.S. He’d also chosen crackers made in B.C. Melatonin tablets made in Canada. He’s even sworn off his favourite Napa Valley wine for the time being, opting instead for Italian.

> The contradiction of shopping at Costco was not lost on him. It is, of course, an American company, headquartered in Washington State. And, as a symbol, Costco is about as synonymous with the American dream as it gets: a car in every garage – because you need a car to get to Costco – and a (bagged) rotisserie chicken on every table.

> “I did think, ‘Should I be coming here?’ ” Mr. Orr said. But the store, he rationalized, supports Canadian jobs. And many of the products it carries are Canadian.

> (And, as a company, Costco has in fact pushed back against some of Mr. Trump’s policies, doubling down in recent weeks on its commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion.)

> Across the concrete warehouse space was evidence of the inextricable links between the two countries – the extent to which the American dream and the Costco dream have also become the Canadian dream. Bags of Tim Hortons coffee. Denim in bulk. Poutine at the snack bar.

"The trade war is running hot in the Costco frozen food section" | Ann Hui | Feb. 5, 2025 in The Globe and Mail

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David Ing

Web video of Understanding Systems week 2 lecture on Systems Approaches. Incorporates doing literature reviews aided by Gen AI.

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David Ing

I understand the issue with copyright and Generative AI training, @staringatclouds . I myself tend to publish as Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA, so it's easy to scrape my content off the web.

The Systems Thinking Ontario session took some time to differentiate between Retrieval Augmented Generation and Transformers, so you have the choice of explicitly selected data sources with traceability, or the whole corpus of language on which the AI is trained.

We might look more for IA as Intelligence Augmentation, but critical thinking helps to fight hallucinations.

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David Ing

Web recording of "Generative AI and Inquiring Systems: Ways of Patterning and Ways of Knowing" from Ontario. Leisurely dialogue and live challenge demos with ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Mistral LeChat, NotebookLM, Perplexity.
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Proceedings published for "Reifying Socio-Technical and Socio-Ecological Perspectives for Systems Changes: From rearranging objects to repacing rhythms” in CEUR-WS for STPIS 2024. More details than the 15-minute presentation in August.

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David Ing

From the 1982 publication of _Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems_, W. Richard Scott in 2004 reflected back on the history of organizational sociology.

> Before open system ideas, organizational scholars had concentrated on actors (workers, work groups, managers) and processes (motivation, cohesion, control) within organizations. Scant attention was accorded to the environment within which the organization operated.

Scott, W. Richard. "Reflections on a half-century of organizational sociology." Annu. Rev. Sociol. 30, no. 1 (2004): 1-21 at annualreviews.org/content/jour

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David Ing

For those interested in detailed distinctions between systems approach, systems thinking, General Systems Theory, system science, etc, Aleksandra A. Nikiforova (Lomonosov Moscow State University) started an entry in the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization in 2022 that has been revised to 2024.
isko.org/cyclo/systems .

The International Society for Knowledge Organization is a “scholarly society devoted to the theory and practice of knowledge organization, bringing together professionals from different disciplines such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science, as well as special domains such as health informatics".

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The Future of Life Institute Safety Index is criticized by Mark Daley as too narrow, with an implicit bias disfavoring open sourcing.

> The “Future of Life Institute” released their FLI Safety Index this week. [....]

> By celebrating only those models that impose rigid controls on allowable thought and scorning those that grant the user genuine choice, the FLI Safety Index risks becoming equally a barometer of cultural authoritarianism.

“The future of human thought”, Mark Daley, Dec.14, 2024 at noeticengines.substack.com/p/t

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David Ing

In understanding the precursors to the Gunderson and Holling 2001 _Panarchy_ book, it's good to keep in mind that when ecologists refer to "Adaptive Management", the clearer longer label is "Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management".

Holling, C.S. (1979). Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management -- Current Progress and Prospects for the Approach: Summary Report of the First Policy Seminar, 18-21 June 1979. IIASA Collaborative Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: CP-79-009 at pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/119

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David Ing

In describing "go energy" and "stop energy", @pahlkadot approaches yang qi and yin qi, in a dyadic processual approach.

> This is a useful nuance as I develop a framework for building state capacity. One of my admittedly obvious and oversimplified tenets is that systems have both “go energy” and “stop energy,” much as a car has a gas pedal and a brake. You wouldn’t drive a car without a brake, but you also wouldn’t drive a car in which the brake was pressed all the time, even when you were trying to accelerate.

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David Ing

Web recording of the 125th meeting of Ontario: A retrospective, introspective, and prospective discussion about systems convening, in coordination with .
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David Ing

In which directions should advance? In 1985, Bela H. Banathy promoted engaging into systems inquiry in (i) systems theory, (ii) systems philosophy, and (iii) systems methodology, towards application and competence.
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From late September into October, researchers met for 5 intensive days for Banathy Conversation event in Lugano.

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Web video of launch of book "Seeing: A Field Guide to the Patterns and Processes of Nature, Culture, and Consciousness" by . Joined by of , making Systems Process Theory of accessible.

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