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ur mum's not cybernetically valid (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by Vampire@hexbear.net to c/theory@hexbear.net

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What should I read to understand how to build and verify a cybernetically valid system? (e.g. cybernetically valid planned economy)

I understand that production needs to be controlled, and that the decision-making needs to be linked to the front-line workers (because they have eyeballs on the reality of the work). And it's a design-error if decisions are made removed from work, because the controller doesn't have first-hand knowledge.

But I don't understand how to describe that in formal terms. Is there a list of all possible system-design-errors? Is there a methodology/checklist for confirming if me mum is cybernetically valid?

Is there a textbook on all this?

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[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably Cybernetics by Wiener is the basic text?

[–] semioticbreakdown@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

the person who helped design Chile's Cybersyn system, Stafford Beer, wrote about applications of cybernetics to management and organizations (viable systems theory). I haven't read any of it yet, though.