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David Ing

Trying to keep ahead of the AI acronyms? A science journalist lists both mainstream terms, and some emerging trends (e.g. RAG).

"AI is confusing — here’s your cheat sheet" | Jay Peters | The Verge | July 2024 at theverge.com/24201441/ai-termi

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While streaming music, was reading "Joni Mitchell’s “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” Demos" at waxy.org/2008/02/joni_mitchell

It's not often you see Mastodon in the top navigation bar, @andybaio

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Nice to hear that you're still open to the ideas on Systems Changes, @yala @christina

coevolving.com/commons/publica

There's been a lot published in 2023, that is more targeted at philosophical and theoretical foundations. We have an Explainers subgroup trying to make the content more understandable.

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Is it only deep systems scientists we would recognize that the finale episode of Star Trek Discovery, titled "Life Itself", is the also the name of the 2005 book by Robert Rosen?

Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life, Robert Rosen, Columbia University Press at cup.columbia.edu/book/life-its

knows!

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@freeschool Weekly online meetings, "Dialogic Drinks is a the kind of philosophical discussion you have in a coffee shop or bar. There is no demand to find a solution to a problem."

Previous session excerpts at coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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Pre-announcing April 30 Dialogic Drinks session I'm leading on " and Daojia into through Changes", online 18:30 Singapore, 11:30 London, 6:30am Toronto.
Repeating May 2, 8:00pm ET.
Official notifications eqlab.co/newsletter-signup

Yinyang and Daojia into Systems Thinking through Changes
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Diachrony (or diachronic shifts) resurrects a word from 1857, better expressing *changes through time*. A social practice publication in 1998 contrasts synchronic with diachronic. ingbrief.wordpress.com/2024/04

Figure 1: History of ACtions (Synchronic vs. Diachronic). Gutiérrez, Kris D., and Lynda D. Stone. 1998. “An Emerging Methodology for Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Literacy Learning: Synchronic and Diachronic Dimensions of Social Practice.” UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Synchronic-and-Diachronic-Dimensions-of-Social-Guti%C3%A9rrez-Stone/e43897e97ac7e064a9d92d0103bf8dec84301c86.
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I am planning on attending ISSS meeting in DC, @psybertron

Mostly set schedule for UK trip May 9 to 18, Edinburgh, Hull, Manchester, London, hope to see @antlerboy

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Web video introduction of 15 minutes for 1-hour Lunch and Learn on "Systems Changes Dialogues for Social Innovation" invites practitioners for upcoming monthly meetings. Evocative animated images, details deferred to conversations with mentors.
coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

Systems Changes Dialogues on Social Innovation
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Web video of slides from "From Unfreezing-Refreezing, to Systems Changes Learning" for Dialogic Drinks of represents only 1/5 of the time compared to peer-led discussions. Concise hosting called for brevity, and richer presentations.

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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Hosting multiple Dialogic Drinks on "From Unfreezing-Refreezing, to Systems Changes Learning" online, March 12 (Europe), March 14 (Americas), March 15 (Australia). meets . Short presentations, longer discussions
eqlab.co/from-unfreezing-refre

The field theory (circa 1947) from Kurt Lewin has largely been portrayed as "unfreeze-move-refreeze". In the history of systems thinking, Lewin was foundational for the Socio-Technical Systems (STS) and Socio-Ecological (SES) perspectives of Fred E. Emery and Eric L. Trist. With rising interests in Systems Changes, might we theorize (and philosophize) differently? In 2013, an aritcle on "Rethinking Systems Thinking" was published. In 2019, the Systems Changes Learning Circle was founded in Toronto on an espoused 10-year journey to collectively explore progressing the rich legacy of the systems movement. In 2022-2023, two pilot consulting engagements were conducted, with materials openly accessible under Creative Commons licensing. From 2023, three (academic) peer-reviewed journal articles have been published, and a fourth is in final review. Passing the halfway point in the journey, the Circle now has subgroups on explaining theory and refining practices aligned with a new approach.
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"Climate change has no map that we know of. Each time a new scientific study returns something we studied before, it's always going to arrive faster and be worse than we thought before". Episode 5, "What to do When It's too Late" youtube.com/watch?v=VPruvIsDRD

"Instead of cause-effect thinking, effects coming from prior effects, not from simple-minded causes"

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In the third episode of "What to Do When It's Too Late", explains his with humans in , dealing with hopelessness. Live weekly broadcast on with video recordings and podcasts.

Text digest at daviding.wordpress.com/2024/02

What to Do When It's Too Late, David Hawk, Bold Brave Tv
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Published "Reframing for Systems Changes: Sciencing and Philosophizing from Pragmatism towards Processes as Rhythms" with in Journal of the following 2023 Kruger Park, revised after peer review.

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

Institutional associations of some philosophers and scientists in the systems movement
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Web video of @scottdejong + @gceh hosted by in relaxed conversation on "What Can Systems Thinkers Learn from Educational Game Studies" at Ontario

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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I agree that defining systems boundaries is problematic, @tg9541 . I sometimes prefer the labelling of a systems approach over systems thinking, because an approach has an additional sense of converging, particularly when it's a group thinking together towards collective action.

Seeing a system as open relates to there Sweeping In Process described by C. West Churchman. coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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I learned from a WP article (see alt text) that Norbert #Wiener was involved in the political discussion of mitigating the effects of the technological revolution which industrial and administrative #automation brought about.

The 2019 edition of #Cybernetics is freely available form MIT press (URL in alt text).

It's related to my work regarding the boundaries of a system A that objectivizes a system B that it intents to control, the problem of #grounding, #semantics and #classes. #ai is old.

Screenshot of the 2019 MIT edition of the book: Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Norbert Wiener forewords by Doug Hill and Sanjoy K. Mitter The book is freely available from MIT here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4581/Cybernetics-or-Control-and-Communication-in-the Wiener's role in the politics of mitigating undesired automation effects was discussed in the following WP article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/29/automation-technology-fear-artificial-intelligence/
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#JosiahRoyce was one of #NorbertWiener's teachers. To me it appears plausible that the Roycean take on #sociology and the #individual had an impact on Wiener's #cybernetics

iep.utm.edu/roycejos/ #philosophy

Screenshot of the IEP article on Josiah Royce Thus, Royce develops the following claims: (1) individuals are inextricably rooted in the social context and true individuality is forged out of that context. An individual is both self-made and a social product and the worthiness of the end result, the individual self, is the responsibility of both individual and community; (2) community is a social product, but true community is created by the hard work of free, self-conscious, self-committed, self-creative moral individuals; (3) the task of the individual is both to fashion a “beautiful life” and to build a “beautiful” community, while the obligation of community is to build a harmony of wills while also fostering the development of true individuals; (4) individuals are finite, sinful and fallible and need to extend self to develop morality and overcome error. Furthermore, individuals crave harmony and relationship. Individuals keep communities alive, moral, and sane by keeping them from stagnating into inveterate habit, moving toward exclusivity and intolerance, or degenerating into mob madness. In other words, stress must be equally on the individual and the community. For Royce, “individuals without community are without substance, while communities without individuals are blind.” https://iep.utm.edu/roycejos/
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Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe | Alexander Hurst

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

> From emissions to road deaths, the trend for ever-bigger SUVs is a disaster. We need regulation to turn the car industry back to smaller vehicles

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I wonder how many eye doctors are getting an uptick in "night vision problems," a thing that is actually because some asshole engineer decided headlights should be blue now.

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