David Ing @daviding@qoto.org

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 https://noeticengines.substack.com/p/the-future-of-human-thought

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 https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/1193/

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.

https://www.eatingpolicy.com/p/the-trump-appointment-that-could

Web recording of the 125th meeting of #SystemsThinking Ontario: A retrospective, introspective, and prospective discussion about systems convening, in coordination with #RSDSymposium .
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-thinking-ontario-as-systems-convening-st-on-2024-10-21/

In which directions should #SystemsThinking 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.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-theory-systems-philosophy-systems-methodology-banathy-1985/

From late September into October, researchers met for 5 intensive days for #CreativeSystemicResearchPlatformInstitute Banathy Conversation event in Lugano.

https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/csrp-institute-2024-banathy-conversation-lugano/

#SystemsThinking

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

https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/book-launch-seeing-a-field-guide_rasmussen-civitello/

Web video presentation complementing preprint of "Reifying Socio-Technical and Socio-Ecological Perspectives for Systems Changes: From rearranging objects to repacing rhythms" for International Conference on Socio-Technical Perspectives in IS (STPIS’24)
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/reifying-socio-technical-and-socio-ecological-perspectives-for-systems-changes-stpis/

Invited paper to International Conference on Socio-Technical Perspectives in IS (STPIS’24) on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, https://stpis.org/program/ online to Sweden.

Preprint at https://coevolving.com/commons/2024-08-reifying-socio-technical-socio-ecological-stpis

#SystemsThinking

Web video from U. Hull Centre for Systems Studies expert-led session on "Resequencing #SystemsThinking: Practising, Theorizing and Philosophizing as Systems Changes Learning", 4 parts, ~ 3 hours.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/resequencing-systems-thinking-u-hull/

Slides at https://coevolving.com/commons/2024-05-resequencing-systems-thinking need talk, animation.

Scholarly rankings of #SystemsThinkers may not line up with popularization. Counting h-index is different from number of citations.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/citation-rankings-for-some-systems-thinkers/

Serious about a postcolonial philosophy of Chinese science? Web video of "Yinyang and Daojia into #SystemsThinking through Changes" for #EQLab traces through history + the contextural-dyadic shift for #SystemsChange

https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/yinyang-and-daojia-into-systems-thinking/

Running an open source LLM requires a lot of resources. The smallest model may run on a powerful laptop, but beyond that, you'll need a server. Besides the GPU (probably Nvidia), check out the disk space requirement for Llama 3.1

8b parameters, 4.7GB
70b parameters, 40GB
405b parameters, 231GB

https://ollama.com/library/llama3.1:70b

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 https://www.theverge.com/24201441/ai-terminology-explained-humans

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

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

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 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/life-itself/9780231075657

#JudithRosen knows!

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Life,_Itself_(episode)