Podcast appearances and mentions of eden medina

Last episode, we looked at the technocrats of the industrial age: Thorstein Veblen, Howard Scott, and the “industrial tinkerers,” as Daniel Bell put it. But Daniel Bell went on to say we were entered a new age — a …

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Cybernetics is broadly defined as the study of control and communications, with a special emphasis on feedback-based systems. Put another way: cybernetics is the study of the flow of data. Predating computer science by decades, cybernetics offers up an interesting view of computing. But of course, there's a lot more to the picture than just computers. This episode we are looking at Project Cybersyn, an attempt to automate Chile's economy via cybernetics. To talk about this specific case we are going to dive deep into the history of cybernetics itself. Selected Sources: https://sci-hub.se/10.1086/286788 - Behavior, Purpose, and Teleology https://sci-hub.se/10.1057/jors.1984.2 - The Viable System Model, by Beer https://web.archive.org/web/20181222110043/http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/cybernetics/Platform/platform.pdf - Beer on Cybersyn https://web.archive.org/web/20200619033457/https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/edenm/EdenMedinaJLASAugust2006.pdf - Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation, by Eden Medina

In this episode of Vitamin PhD, Heather and Matt talk about the rewards, challenges, and possibilities of interdisciplinary research, as well as how to cultivate successful interdisciplinary collaboration and research agendas. They are joined by Dr. Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. This episode features our Graduate Student panel, Amanda Ruiz from Brown University, Dana Ahern from University of California Santa Barbara, Kiara Lee from Brown University, and Kristin Tzok from Boston University, discussing transdisciplinary research.Dr. Medina's new book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries

Hoy en Psicoflix hablamos de las habilidades terapéuticas ante el suicidio con Eden Medina, psicólogo, Máster en Terapias Contextuales, Maestría en Terapias Cognitivo-Conductuales, doctorando e investigador del grupo ACOVEO. Además, es director y fundador de ITECOC (Instituto de Terapias Cognitivo-Conductuales) en México. La entrada Habilidades terapéuticas ante el suicidio con Eden Medina – Episodio 121 se publicó primero en Psicoflix.

Hoy en Psicoflix hablamos de las habilidades terapéuticas ante el suicidio con Eden Medina, psicólogo, Máster en Terapias Contextuales, Maestría en Terapias Cognitivo-Conductuales, doctorando e investigador del grupo ACOVEO. Además, es director y fundador de ITECOC (Instituto de Terapias Cognitivo-Conductuales) en México. La entrada Habilidades terapéuticas ante el suicidio con Eden Medina – Episodio 121 se publicó primero en Psicoflix.

Hoy en Psicoflix hablamos del Análisis Funcional del cambio en terapia con María Xesús Froxán. María Xesús es Catedrática de Psicología y Profesora Titular en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Dirige el Máster de Modificación de Conducta del Instituto Terapéutico de Madrid (ITEMA), donde ejerce su actividad clínica y docente. Además, es directora del grupo de investigación ACOVEO. Las notas del episodio con enlaces e información adicional en: https://psicoflix.com/analisis-funcional-del-cambio-en-terapia-con-maria-xesus-froxan-episodio-120/ En el episodio de hoy hablamos entre otras cosas de: Lo que estamos viendo en toda la revisión bibliográfica sobre los llamados terapeutas súper expertos (supershrinks), es que la mayoría de las investigaciones están construidas sobre aspectos más o menos estáticos de la interacción. Es decir, se estudian los años de experiencia, las personalidades del terapeuta y del cliente... Se estudian elementos que son ajenos a la propia interacción terapeútica. Nuestro planteamiento, y es el que queremos demostrar en esta tesis, es que existen una serie de habilidades que tú puedes entrenar y que hacen que tú seas ese terapeuta maravilloso, aunque tengas un solo año de práctica profesional. La experiencia no se puede hacer equivalente a los años de práctica. Una cosa son los años de experiencia y otra es tu experiencia como terapeuta, tu grado de experticidad (término para diferenciarlo de la experiencia como años). Nosotros consideramos que hay una característica, y es lo que estamos viendo en la cantidad de sesiones que estamos analizando, que hace que el terapeuta sea eficiente: que sea capaz de responder en el momento exacto aquello que la interacción está pidiendo. Es decir, es una persona que tiene una especie de alerta, de rapidez, para captar y responder de una forma óptima lo que tiene delante, y eso se puede entrenar. Esa capacidad de responder implica desarrollar una capacidad de observación máxima y tener perfectamente organizada la sesión de terapia Hablamos de todas estas cuestiones con María Xesús Froxán. Conocemos cómo fueron sus comienzos como analista de conducta, sus investigaciones sobre la interacción terapéutica y los futuros retos en este campo. Hablamos del factor humano del terapeuta, de los errores habituales de los psicólogos, del control verbal aversivo y de la generalización de los cambios. Comentamos también la importancia de la cultura y del posible uso de la inteligencia artificial en el futuro, entre otros muchos temas más. Escucha el episodio completo aquí, en Spotify, iTunes o Ivoox. Puedes saber más sobre María Xesús Froxán aquí: Web ITEMA: www.itemadrid.netGrupo ACOVEO: www.grupoacoveo.com Instagram: @itema_psicologosTwitter: @ITEMAPsicologosFacebook: ITEMA Curso en Psicoflix: Introducción al análisis funcional de la conducta - Miriam RochaPodcast en Psicoflix: El análisis funcional de la conducta - Miriam RochaManual: Análisis funcional de la conducta humana: concepto, metodología y aplicacionesMáster de Análisis Funcional de la Conducta - Universidad Autonóma de Madrid Nos vemos el próximo jueves a las 20.00 con una nueva entrevista en la que hablaremos de las habilidades terapéuticas para el manejo de conductas suicidas con Eden Medina. ¡Te esperamos por aquí! Estamos abiertos a cualquier sugerencia, así que no dudes en contactar con nosotros.

Paris Marx is joined by Eden Medina to discuss Project Cybersyn, a technological system created by Chile’s socialist government in the 1970s to manage production, and what it can teach us about political technology and innovation outside the Global North.Eden Medina is the author of “Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile.” She’s also an associate professor at MIT and the Rita Howser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institite for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Follow Eden on Twitter as @edenmedina.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:In 2020, Marian Schlotterbeck spoke to Jacobin about the fifty year anniversary of Salvador Allende’s election.Independent and left-wing delegates won major victories in the election for Chile’s constitutional assembly, making it hard for right-wing delegates to stall the process.In October 2020, Chileans voted overwhelmingly to draft a new constitution, following protests that began in 2019.Dictator Augusto Pinochet oversaw a brutal regime from 1973 to 1990, and the crimes of that period are still being prosecuted.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

The boys make a return to Allende’s Chile this week with the conclusion of their sketch of its all too brief flirtation with cybernetic planning. Jack and Dan look at what exactly it was that cybernetician Stafford Beer proposed as a model for real-time decentralised economic management in Chile. They explore the highs, the lows, and some lessons that can be drawn from Project Cybersyn. Reading, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Alliende’s Chile (2014), by Eden Medina.

This week Jack and Dan try to get to grips with the hip new theory on the block: Cybernetics! Our story starts in 1970s Chile. The boys learn all about how an eccentric British cybernetician named Stafford Beer came to be in the employ of the Socialist administration of president Salvador Allende. What does this management consultant have to teach a bunch of democratic socialists and how might business management theory come to inform our glorious communist future? Reading, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (2014), By Eden Medina.

cold open: Interview with Eden Medina on Project Cybersyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSmQCvfT4pU We dig into one of the most interesting and exciting experiments in socialist innovation ever attempted: Project Cybersyn in 1970s Chile. There’s much to be learned from the history of how a ragtag group of revolutionaries sought to create a cybernetic system to organize and manage a democratic socialist economy. As well as from its ultimate demise at the hands of a CIA-backed military coup. While this prototype of cybernetic democratic socialism was smothered in its cradle by authoritarian neoliberalism, the lessons gleaned from this real utopian endeavor must live on today. Cybersyn is dead, long live Cybersyn! Some stuff we reference: • Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile by Eden Medina https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries • The Anti-Socialist Origins of Big Data by Greg Gandin: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/anti-socialist-origins-big-data/ • Chomsky interviewed by Denis Staunton: https://chomsky.info/2009____/ Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).

Part two of the episode with Benjamin Bratton one of the most interesting contemporary thinkers. In his work he bridges the gap between political theory and the techno-social realities and possibilities of our time. On the format: This Future Histories LIVE event came together as part of an invitation to hold a guest lecture at the Goldsmiths College in London. I proposed a format in which I would hold a short presentation on podcasting as a form of extended research and then record an episode live in front of the students. My warmest thanks go out to Mattia Paganelli for the invitation to hold the guest lecture, to Benjamin Bratton for taking part in the interview and discussion and to the students of the Goldsmiths' seminar on Computational Arts for their participation. Shownotes Benjamin Bratton's Homepage: http://www.bratton.info/ Benjamin Bratton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bratton Website of the Center for Design and Geopolitics: http://www.designgeopolitics.org/ "The Stack. On Software and Sovereignty" (2016) by Benjamin Bratton: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stack The Terraforming (experimental postgraduate urban design research program at the Strelka Institute in Moscow) Website: https://theterraforming.strelka.com/ "The Terraforming" (2019) by Benjamin Bratton: https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/strelka.storage/2020/4/8100070b-5651-4409-bc4c-cac813e51124/the_terraforming_fin.epub (epub, full book) Introduction Lecture by Benjamin Bratton on "The Terraforming": https://youtu.be/nIStg6jsmQQ  Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode: Wiki on Stafford Beer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer Wiki on Project Cybersyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" (2011) by Eden Medina: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries "Platform Capitalism" (2016) by Nick Srnicek: https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862 (German) Schadenspiegel: Das Magazin für Schadenmanager, Ausgabe 1/2016, "Man-Made-Katastrophen": https://docplayer.org/37275834-Topics-schadenspiegel-man-made-katastrophen-das-magazin-fuer-schadenmanager-ausgabe-1-2016.html "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data" by Evgeny Morozov: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism (full article online) "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff: https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/ Wiki on Catallaxy and Catallactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallactics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallaxy Wiki on Friedrich Hayek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) by Friedrich Hayek: https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1446/files/549519/download?download_frd=1 (pdf, full article)  Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: Episode 31 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/ Episode 32 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/ (German) Episode 14 mit Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/ (German) Episode 19 mit Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/ (German) Episode 30 mit Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e30-paul-feigelfeld-zu-alternativen-zukuenften-unvollstaendigkeit-amp-dem-sein-in-der-technik/ (German) Episode 38 mit Ulrike Hermann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/ (German) Episode 39 mit Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/   If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today   Episode Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #BenjaminBratton, #Interview, #Society, #SyntheticCatallaxy, #Catallaxy, #PlannedEconomy, #Planwirtschaft, #DesignAndGeopolitics, #Terraforming, #Strelka, #CyberneticRevolutionaries, #PlatformCapitalism, #NickSrnicek, #EdenMedina, #Democracy, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #ProjectCybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #BigData, #EvgenyMorozov, #DigitalSocialism, #SocialistCyberneticPlanning, #Cybernetics, #Cybersyn, #Kybernetik, #SocialistCalculation, #sozialePlanwirtschaft, #kybernetischeGovernance, #OpsRoom, #digitalePlanwirtschaft, #Hayek, #User, #TheStack, #Platform, #PlatformOfPlatforms, #RedPlenty

Das Buch über das wir sprechen: Cybernetic Revolutionaries - Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile von Eden Medina.

Benjamin Bratton is one of the most interesting thinkers of our time. In his work he bridges the gap between political theory and the techno-social realities and possibilities of our time. On the format: This Future Histories LIVE event came together as part of an invitation to hold a guest lecture at the Goldsmiths College in London. I proposed a format in which I would hold a short presentation on podcasting as a form of extended research and then record an episode live in front of the students. My warmest thanks go out to Mattia Paganelli for the invitation to hold the guest lecture, to Benjamin Bratton for taking part in the interview and discussion and to the students of the Goldsmiths' seminar on Computational Arts for their participation. Shownotes Benjamin Bratton's Homepage: http://www.bratton.info/ Benjamin Bratton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bratton Website of the Center for Design and Geopolitics: http://www.designgeopolitics.org/ "The Stack. On Software and Sovereignty" (2016) by Benjamin Bratton: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stack The Terraforming (experimental postgraduate urban design research program at the Strelka Institute in Moscow) Website: https://theterraforming.strelka.com/ "The Terraforming" (2019) by Benjamin Bratton: https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/strelka.storage/2020/4/8100070b-5651-4409-bc4c-cac813e51124/the_terraforming_fin.epub (epub, full book) Introduction Lecture by Benjamin Bratton on "The Terraforming": https://youtu.be/nIStg6jsmQQ  Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode: Wiki on Stafford Beer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer Wiki on Project Cybersyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" (2011) by Eden Medina: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries "Platform Capitalism" (2016) by Nick Srnicek: https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862 (German) Schadenspiegel: Das Magazin für Schadenmanager, Ausgabe 1/2016, "Man-Made-Katastrophen": https://docplayer.org/37275834-Topics-schadenspiegel-man-made-katastrophen-das-magazin-fuer-schadenmanager-ausgabe-1-2016.html "Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data" by Evgeny Morozov: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism (full article online) "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff: https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/ Wiki on Catallaxy and Catallactics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallactics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catallaxy Wiki on Friedrich Hayek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) by Friedrich Hayek: https://learn.canvas.net/courses/1446/files/549519/download?download_frd=1 (pdf, full article)  Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: Episode 31 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1): https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e31-daniel-saros Episode 32 with Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2): https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/daniel-saros-part-2 (German) Episode 14 mit Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e14-harald-welzer (German) Episode 19 mit Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e19-jan-philipp-dapprich (German) Episode 30 mit Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeld (German) Episode 38 mit Ulrike Hermann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e38-ulrike-hermann (German) Episode 39 mit Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e39-jens-schroeter   If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today   Episode Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #BenjaminBratton, #Interview, #Society, #SyntheticCatallaxy, #Catallaxy, #PlannedEconomy, #Planwirtschaft, #DesignAndGeopolitics, #Terraforming, #Strelka, #CyberneticRevolutionaries, #PlatformCapitalism, #NickSrnicek, #EdenMedina, #Democracy, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #ProjectCybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #BigData, #EvgenyMorozov, #DigitalSocialism, #SocialistCyberneticPlanning, #Cybernetics, #Cybersyn, #Kybernetik, #SocialistCalculation, #sozialePlanwirtschaft, #kybernetischeGovernance, #OpsRoom, #digitalePlanwirtschaft, #Hayek, #User, #TheStack, #Platform, #PlatformOfPlatforms, #RedPlenty

02:14 - Amy’s Superpower: Looking at a mess and seeing the potential for what it could be. 03:40 - Generalists vs Specialists * 071: Brein Power with Rein Henrichs (https://www.greaterthancode.com/brein-power) * T-Shaped Skills (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills) “The job description should describe the capabilities that the team needs, not that the individual needs.” 15:28 - Finding a “Beautiful” Mess in Technical Systems “The biggest impediment to change is your users.” – Jessica Richard Dawkins Demonstrates Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdm5he) 22:40 - Artisanal and Industrial Modes of Production * Systems are indelibly stamped by the experience of the people who built them 28:25 - Design, Use, and Reliability 32:30 - Convincing Executives to Care About a Thing * Now vs Later * Where do we spend our attention to maximize value? * Viable System Model (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdm5he) * Context Over Control / Communication Without Authority 41:08 - Whistleblowing is Good Because Misuse of Authority is Bad 51:33 - SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) “The goal of SRE is to change the way your organization relates to the systems it runs.” – Rein Reflections: Jessica: Bonus question: Amy, why do you hate the word, “mature”? Rein: “A problem is an abstraction extracted from a mess via analysis.” – Russel Ackoff Amy: Models: We keep trying the same patterns and complaining about the same outcomes. Thinking by Machine: A Study of Cybernetics (https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Machine-Cybernetics-Pierre-Latil/dp/B0000CJKQE) Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (https://www.amazon.com/Cybernetic-Revolutionaries-Technology-Politics-Allendes/dp/0262525968/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NIL0S9DU27P9&dchild=1&keywords=cybernetic+revolutionaries&qid=1594244894&s=books&sprefix=cybernetic+re%2Cstripbooks%2C158&sr=1-1) Greater Than Code Episode 093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina (https://www.greaterthancode.com/cybernetic-revolutionaries) Brain of the Firm (https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Firm-Stafford-Beer/dp/047194839X) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Amy Tobey.

Emily has been on GTC before! Check out her previous episode: 037: Failure Mode (https://www.greaterthancode.com/failure-mode) 01:08 - Emily’s Superpower: Hunting Nazis and Data Science * Emily’s Motivation to Do This Work – Fighting Back * What is the question behind the question? * Data Science + SCIENCE 14:55 - Being Willing to Be Wrong / Failure and Learning * Methods for Determining You’re Going to be Tracking Wrong Things * Simpson’s Paradox (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Simpsons-paradox#:~:text=Simpson's%20paradox%2C%20also%20called%20Yule,one%20or%20more%20other%20variables.) * Means Are a Lie * Detecting Nonlinearities 34:49 - Cybernetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics) * 093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina (https://www.greaterthancode.com/cybernetic-revolutionaries) 38:43 - The COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis and The Need For Systematic Restructuring * The Problem with Testing * Conditional Probability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_probability) * Bayes Rule (https://towardsdatascience.com/what-is-bayes-rule-bb6598d8a2fd?gi=2073fb276511) * Ventilator Production 47:16 - Nuance, Power, and Authority * High-Reliability Organizations * Devolution * The Safety Anarchist (https://www.amazon.com/Safety-Anarchist-innovation-bureaucracy-compliance/dp/1138300462) * The Difference Between: * Innovation * A Work-Around * A Shortcut * A Non-Compliant * Deciphering Good Actors & Bad Actors This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Emily Gorcenski.

For this installment of our series on Actually Existing Socialism, Donald, Christian, and Rudy have a discussion based on Eden Medina's book Cybernetic Revolutionaries and the experience of cybernetic planning under Allende's Chile. Outro music is “Litany for a computer and a child about to be born” by Angel Parra and Stafford Beer.

Durante la presidencia de Allende, en Chile, trataron de diseñar un sistema cibernético que serviría para gestionar la economía chilena: se llamaba Proyecto Cybersyn. Nosotros escuchamos esta historia en dos episodios de otros podcasts y quedamos con la lengua picada porque cuando se habla del proyecto, tiende a dejarse la pregunta abierta «¿será que Cybersyn hubiera funcionado?» Y nosotros creemos que esa pregunta tiene una respuesta. Con el apoyo de: ▸Oyentes como tú en Patreon Notas del episodio:  99% Invisible: «Project Cybersyn». Radio Ambulante: «La sala que era un cerebro». Promesas de Allende. Presidencia de Salvador Allende.  El proyecto tenía dos nombres, Proyecto Synco o Proyecto Cybersyn. Así se veía la sala. «Cybernetic Revolutionaries», el libro de Eden Medina que nos permitió aprender tantos detalles de Cybersyn. Últimas palabras de Allende. El programa de televisión Chile Secreto hizo un episodio que nos llamó la atención porque tiene a varios de los trabajadores que construyeron Cybersyn.  Stafford Beer.  Cibernética. El libro del turco que jugaba ajedrez se llama «The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine». «Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy». Extra: El hilo.    Recomendado: PBS Idea Channel.

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Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (Print Version) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262525968/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0262525968&linkId=e09a1ed21dc65f0235d273fa6e30db5b) 01:57 – Eden’s Superpower: Being a Patient Learner 06:51 – Determining Your Ability/Eligibility to Speak as an Expert 08:55 – Electrical Engineering => Law => PhD Work 12:47 – The History of Cybernetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics) 15:51 – American vs British Cybernetics The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226667901/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0226667901&linkId=442c315bcdda3e32db2428df1dfab243) Grey Walter’s Tortoises (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLULRlmXkKo) 17:37 – The Many Definitions of Cybernetics The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) by Ronald R. Kline (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/142142424X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=142142424X&linkId=446c68cf5c6674b14e216d1099f09f05) 25:03 – Project Cybersyn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn) 45:56 – Sociotechnical Engineering 53:24 – Creating Ethically Sound Tools Reflections: Astrid: The power dynamics that are already baked into our tools and the history of computing is global. Jessica: Looking into second-order cybernetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_cybernetics). Rein: The importance of learning about history, culture, and how people work as being necessary for a technical career. Eden: Making connections throughout the show. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Eden Medina.

It would be difficult to argue against Stafford Beer’s Project Cybersyn as the most bold and audacious chapter in the history of cybernetics.  In the early 70’s, at the invitation of leftist president, Salvador Allende, the “father of management cybernetics” (as Norbert Wiener christened Beer) attempted nothing less than the development and implementation of a cybernetic governance system for Chile’s nationalized economy.  For decades, we have relied solely on the writings of Beer and his associates for accounts of this amazing techno-political adventure but, thanks to Eden Medina’s Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile, from the MIT press (originally published in 2011 and out in softcover in 2014), we now have a deeply researched scholarly investigation of this extraordinary historical moment in which Beer’s cybernetic Viable System Model was positioned as a tool to enable radical socialist transformation while remaining within Chile’s constitutional democratic framework.  Medina deftly guides us through this astonishing odyssey as the utopian visionary Beer and his brilliant and inspired team of local collaborators, facing an invisible US led economic and technological blockade, craft a real-time communications network stretching the entire length of Chile out of two mainframe computers and a warehouse full of unused telex machines and which proves its mettle in response to a wildly disruptive US funded national truck drivers strike.  Along the way, we meet a colorful cast of characters including doctor turned Marxist lightning rod, Salvador Allende, wily young political operator and future Silicon valley innovator, Fernando Flores, and of course, the wildly charismatic business guru turned leftist, new age quasi-mystic, Stafford Beer; all wrestling with the struggle to keep their emancipatory egalitarian project of distributed decision making and control from tipping over into centralized technocracy as the entire Chilean socialist project teeters towards its brutal and tragic ending.  Seamlessly blending compelling storytelling and astute technological, political, and cultural analysis, Medina’s book stands as a penetrating look at an under-theorized political experiment and a detailed summary of its still hotly debated legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It would be difficult to argue against Stafford Beer’s Project Cybersyn as the most bold and audacious chapter in the history of cybernetics.  In the early 70’s, at the invitation of leftist president, Salvador Allende, the “father of management cybernetics” (as Norbert Wiener christened Beer) attempted nothing less than the development and implementation of a cybernetic governance system for Chile’s nationalized economy.  For decades, we have relied solely on the writings of Beer and his associates for accounts of this amazing techno-political adventure but, thanks to Eden Medina’s Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile, from the MIT press (originally published in 2011 and out in softcover in 2014), we now have a deeply researched scholarly investigation of this extraordinary historical moment in which Beer’s cybernetic Viable System Model was positioned as a tool to enable radical socialist transformation while remaining within Chile’s constitutional democratic framework.  Medina deftly guides us through this astonishing odyssey as the utopian visionary Beer and his brilliant and inspired team of local collaborators, facing an invisible US led economic and technological blockade, craft a real-time communications network stretching the entire length of Chile out of two mainframe computers and a warehouse full of unused telex machines and which proves its mettle in response to a wildly disruptive US funded national truck drivers strike.  Along the way, we meet a colorful cast of characters including doctor turned Marxist lightning rod, Salvador Allende, wily young political operator and future Silicon valley innovator, Fernando Flores, and of course, the wildly charismatic business guru turned leftist, new age quasi-mystic, Stafford Beer; all wrestling with the struggle to keep their emancipatory egalitarian project of distributed decision making and control from tipping over into centralized technocracy as the entire Chilean socialist project teeters towards its brutal and tragic ending.  Seamlessly blending compelling storytelling and astute technological, political, and cultural analysis, Medina’s book stands as a penetrating look at an under-theorized political experiment and a detailed summary of its still hotly debated legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It would be difficult to argue against Stafford Beer's Project Cybersyn as the most bold and audacious chapter in the history of cybernetics.  In the early 70's, at the invitation of leftist president, Salvador Allende, the “father of management cybernetics” (as Norbert Wiener christened Beer) attempted nothing less than the... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/systems-and-cybernetics

It would be difficult to argue against Stafford Beer’s Project Cybersyn as the most bold and audacious chapter in the history of cybernetics.  In the early 70’s, at the invitation of leftist president, Salvador Allende, the “father of management cybernetics” (as Norbert Wiener christened Beer) attempted nothing less than the development and implementation of a cybernetic governance system for Chile’s nationalized economy.  For decades, we have relied solely on the writings of Beer and his associates for accounts of this amazing techno-political adventure but, thanks to Eden Medina’s Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile, from the MIT press (originally published in 2011 and out in softcover in 2014), we now have a deeply researched scholarly investigation of this extraordinary historical moment in which Beer’s cybernetic Viable System Model was positioned as a tool to enable radical socialist transformation while remaining within Chile’s constitutional democratic framework.  Medina deftly guides us through this astonishing odyssey as the utopian visionary Beer and his brilliant and inspired team of local collaborators, facing an invisible US led economic and technological blockade, craft a real-time communications network stretching the entire length of Chile out of two mainframe computers and a warehouse full of unused telex machines and which proves its mettle in response to a wildly disruptive US funded national truck drivers strike.  Along the way, we meet a colorful cast of characters including doctor turned Marxist lightning rod, Salvador Allende, wily young political operator and future Silicon valley innovator, Fernando Flores, and of course, the wildly charismatic business guru turned leftist, new age quasi-mystic, Stafford Beer; all wrestling with the struggle to keep their emancipatory egalitarian project of distributed decision making and control from tipping over into centralized technocracy as the entire Chilean socialist project teeters towards its brutal and tragic ending.  Seamlessly blending compelling storytelling and astute technological, political, and cultural analysis, Medina’s book stands as a penetrating look at an under-theorized political experiment and a detailed summary of its still hotly debated legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It would be difficult to argue against Stafford Beer’s Project Cybersyn as the most bold and audacious chapter in the history of cybernetics.  In the early 70’s, at the invitation of leftist president, Salvador Allende, the “father of management cybernetics” (as Norbert Wiener christened Beer) attempted nothing less than the development and implementation of a cybernetic governance system for Chile’s nationalized economy.  For decades, we have relied solely on the writings of Beer and his associates for accounts of this amazing techno-political adventure but, thanks to Eden Medina’s Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile, from the MIT press (originally published in 2011 and out in softcover in 2014), we now have a deeply researched scholarly investigation of this extraordinary historical moment in which Beer’s cybernetic Viable System Model was positioned as a tool to enable radical socialist transformation while remaining within Chile’s constitutional democratic framework.  Medina deftly guides us through this astonishing odyssey as the utopian visionary Beer and his brilliant and inspired team of local collaborators, facing an invisible US led economic and technological blockade, craft a real-time communications network stretching the entire length of Chile out of two mainframe computers and a warehouse full of unused telex machines and which proves its mettle in response to a wildly disruptive US funded national truck drivers strike.  Along the way, we meet a colorful cast of characters including doctor turned Marxist lightning rod, Salvador Allende, wily young political operator and future Silicon valley innovator, Fernando Flores, and of course, the wildly charismatic business guru turned leftist, new age quasi-mystic, Stafford Beer; all wrestling with the struggle to keep their emancipatory egalitarian project of distributed decision making and control from tipping over into centralized technocracy as the entire Chilean socialist project teeters towards its brutal and tragic ending.  Seamlessly blending compelling storytelling and astute technological, political, and cultural analysis, Medina’s book stands as a penetrating look at an under-theorized political experiment and a detailed summary of its still hotly debated legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices