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Cybernetics, Feedback Loops, and Norbert Weiner 🤓

How Norbert Wiener's cybernetic theories from the 1940s have become fundamental to our mental models of the world

Cybernetics, Feedback Loops, and Norbert Weiner 🤓
Your host, Edward de Bono

The idea of feedback loops is so fundamental to us now that it's odd to think that there was even a need to explain it.

And yet, this peculiar British 1981 show called "The Greatest Thinkers: A Personal View by Edward de Bono" exists to do just that. It (or rather, Edward) presents Wiener's vision of feedback loops between humans and machines—a concept that would later become fundamental to video game design and pretty much everything we do with computers today.

Among the highlights of this unintentionally campy show are:

The light pen used by de Bono to draw
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i feel better after i type to you

The human drive to form emotional bonds with digital entities hasn't changed since ELIZA - AI has just gotten better at completing the circuit.

i feel better after i type to you

The recent Daily episode following the death of Adam Raine, induced by ChatGPT, reminded me of a less tragic but similarly sad book, i feel better after i type to you, which was a book published after the 2006 leak of entries typed into the AOL search box. Reading through the raw unedited transcript of one user's search queries felt like listening to a person whispering to an oracle, almost like looking into a person's bare soul.

That was a one-way transcript, just the question but not the answer, though purportedly there were responses. But, in this recent incident and

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