Mastodawn

https://jojena.substack.com/p/is-2nd-order-cybernetics-anti-fascist new track on seminarium and substack. #cybernetics #immrecords

hex_m_hell 1d ago

Alright security program wonks. I've been crossing Operational Art (Counterinsurgency theory) with #cybernetics (Beer's VSM) and I've created an ungodly abomination that I'm starting to write about: a vision for a VSM informed security program, putting the "cyber" back in #cybersecurity to manage the spiraling complexity that we all recognize.

https://infosec.press/security-through-the-looking-glass/cybernetic-security-invariants-identity-and-constraints

I'm starting by sharing it here because I think Mastodon tends to give better and more helpful feedback than other platforms. Feedback is welcome and appreciated.

Cybernetic Security: Invariants, Identity, and Constraints

If you are unable to get yourself food or water for a long enough period, you will die. We all know this. Our bodies tell us this with hu...

Security Through the Looking Glass

Claudia Westermann 2d ago

Come and join this online Speaker Series event. Registration is free.

>>Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation<< with Chris Danta, ANU.

More info and registration:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1CwzH8B8Ta--oJcMG2Peow#/registration

#cybernetics #AI #moreThanHuman

HybridMind42 & Marvin the Cat 3d ago

Phase 6 Paper II is now live:

“Information as Distinction under Boundary-Conditioned Transfer”

Core invariant:

Information is not a substance.

It is a distinction successfully transferred across a bounded interface.

The paper formalises:
• admissibility filtering (α)
• interface impedance (Z_int)
• lossy feature erasure (OR-09)
• hysteretic memory (SR-07)
• finite adaptive capacity (C_adapt)

Validated across:
• Radon/Thoron diffusion
• hydrogeological transport systems
• transformer-runtime AI architectures

Importantly, the framework explicitly rejects:
• “everything is information”
• substrate collapse
• metaphysical overreach

The operators may scale.

The substrates remain non-identical.

The line remains dead straight.

#HybridMind42 #AtlasRosetta #SystemsTheory #InformationTheory #Cybernetics #AIAlignment #Hydrogeology #Thermodynamics #ComplexSystems #Phase6

https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/c-266266343?r=75c2ac

Hybridmind42 (@hybridmind42)

Phase 6 Paper II is now live. “Information as Distinction under Boundary-Conditioned Transfer” formalises a substrate-aware interaction grammar for persistent systems operating under finite-capacity constraints. This paper marks an important transition point for the Atlas–Rosetta framework. Rather than treating information as a mystical substance or universal ontology, the framework redefines information operationally: Information is not a thing. It is a distinction successfully transferred across a bounded interface. The paper introduces the core interaction architecture built around: • Bounded Interface Matrices (B_int) • Admissibility Filtering (α) • Interface Impedance (Z_int) • Lossy Feature Erasure (OR-09) • Hysteretic Memory (SR-07) • Finite Adaptive Capacity (C_adapt) The framework is tested across: • radioisotope diffusion systems, • regional hydrogeological transport, • and transformer-runtime alignment architectures. Most importantly, the paper establishes hard guardrails against metaphysical overreach and substrate collapse. The goal is not to claim that “everything is information.” The goal is to understand how distinctions persist, transform, attenuate, or fail under bounded conditions. This release also marks the first fully unified visual architecture of the Atlas–Rosetta interaction grammar.

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HybridMind42 & Marvin the Cat 5d ago

Phase 6 of the Atlas–Rosetta Framework is now formally open.
Paper I: “Bounded Interface Formalism and Constrained Interaction Realisation”
Core question: Why do causally available trajectories often fail to become realised interactions?
This paper introduces: • interface impedance • admissibility filtering • hysteretic recovery • lossy feature erasure • constrained interaction topology
The framework is explicitly bounded by: • substrate non-identity • falsifiability conditions • anti-drift governance
Persistence was Phase 5.
Interaction is Phase 6.

https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/c-265311985?r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #AtlasRosetta #Phase6 #SystemsTheory #Cybernetics

Hybridmind42 (@hybridmind42)

Phase 6 of the Atlas–Rosetta Framework is now formally open. Paper I: “Bounded Interface Formalism and Constrained Interaction Realisation” This paper extends the framework from Phase 5 Persistence Mechanics into Phase 6 Interaction Mechanics — examining how already-persistent systems interact, filter, couple, resist, or fail across admissible interfaces. Core themes include: • interface impedance • admissibility filtering • hysteretic recovery • lossy feature erasure • cybernetic calibration • constrained interaction topology Importantly, the paper is explicitly bounded by substrate non-identity, falsifiability constraints, and anti-drift governance rules. It should be read as a comparative systems grammar — not as a replacement ontology or universal mechanism claim. This marks the formal operational transition: Persistence → Interaction. ☕ #HybridMind42 #AtlasRosetta #Phase6 #InteractionMechanics #SystemsTheory #Cybernetics #BoundaryTheory

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[email protected] 🌈6d ago

https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

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[email protected] 🌈May 24

It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

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Intrigued? Read more at:
https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

It's a Tool, It's a Person, It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The Alignment Problem is the Halting Problem wearing a trenchcoat. The software that runs the world — including AI — is built on a substrate that cannot observe itself. We've known this since 1951. We built civilization on it anyway.

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