Epstein Secrets

Doubt and Certainty in Science in which he said that we create tools and we mold ourselves through our use of them. The other text he recommended was Warren Weaver and Claude Shannon’s 1949 paper “Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication,” which begins: “The word communication will be use

tarts to control the flow of traffic even though no one seems to be in control. There are three laws of artificial intelligence. The first, known as Ashby’s Law, after cybernetician W. Ross Ashby, author of Design for a Brain, states that any effective control system must be as complex as the system it

had published a pair of lengthy articles in the Be// System Technical Journal. Introducing the new work to a broad readership in 1949, mathematician Warren Weaver explained that in Shannon’s formulation, “the word information...is used in a special sense that must not be confused with its ordinary usage. In par

as complex as the system it controlled. Cyberneticist W. Ross Ashby proved that this was true in a precise mathematical sense, in what is now called Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety, or sometimes the First Law of Cybernetics. The law tells us that to control a system completely, the controller must be a

Doubt and Certainty in Science in which he said that we create tools and we mold ourselves through our use of them. The other text he recommended was Warren Weaver and Claude Shannon’s 1949 paper “Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication,” which begins: “The word communication will be use

tarts to control the flow of traffic even though no one seems to be in control. There are three laws of artificial intelligence. The first, known as Ashby’s Law, after cybernetician W. Ross Ashby, author of Design for a Brain, states that any effective control system must be as complex as the system it

had published a pair of lengthy articles in the Be// System Technical Journal. Introducing the new work to a broad readership in 1949, mathematician Warren Weaver explained that in Shannon’s formulation, “the word information...is used in a special sense that must not be confused with its ordinary usage. In par

as complex as the system it controlled. Cyberneticist W. Ross Ashby proved that this was true in a precise mathematical sense, in what is now called Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety, or sometimes the First Law of Cybernetics. The law tells us that to control a system completely, the controller must be a