Most philosophy seems to be centered on one of 2 things: survival or self-actualization. Almost all non-religious philosophy is centered on the latter. Darwinism (as a philosophy) and existentialism are the only major philosophies of survival that I can think of. Any others?
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I'm basically part of the garbage "scene" that emerged around "Cybernetics" because people realized Darwinian evolution (alone) wasn't really how politics works. So, they keep digging and they find Kelly, Wiener and Kurzweil, etc.
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I have some sympathy for the motives that draw people to cybernetics. They're honest, even if too hedehoggy for my tastes (which is a matter of epistemic style rather than epistemic merit). My problem with the field is simply that it doesn't actually work as a field.
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A super-intelligent entity might analyze the situation like this: "Humans make names for disciplines that lie under the super-discipline of 'cybernetics', but these are all just a 'life' system of 'dishonest communications designed to reallocate resources to the communicators'.."
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That would be correct. It would not be wrong to treat the very coining of the term as a sort of land grab by Wiener. Like a patent troll or something.
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I might also add that I can't really fit any complete idea on this subject into a tweet. There are lots of "suitcase words" in "cybernetic domains." as your article states (albeit in other words). i.e.: "politics/law/war/communications" often share a core goal ("parasitism")
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