Epstein Secrets

of central planning collapsed under its own weight with the USSR in 1989, 32 “Is there a greater tragedy”: F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 32 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018264 In our own age, a fundamental conflict lingers as well. This is the struggle between individual liberty and conn

But at the center it is dense, still, even quiet with the silently cranking algorithms of massively concentrated power. The computer science pioneer Claude Shannon saw information in 1949 as wild, uncertain, and pulsing with the instability of an entropic system. Yang. The machine architect Norbert Weiner, writi

of signals and intuitive actions that produce the 5! Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999 foreword to Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972): xi. %? Steps to an Ecology of Mind, p. 452. 3 Tbid., pp. 467-8. 179 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016982 movements of life partnered with an electro-m

arguments in Zhe Human Use of Human Beings seem closer to the 19th century than the 21st. In particular, although Wiener made reference throughout to Claude Shannon’s then-new work on information theory, he seems not to have fully embraced Shannon’s notion of information as consisting of irreducible, meaning-free

of signals and intuitive actions that produce the 5! Mary Catherine Bateson, 1999 foreword to Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972): xi. %? Steps to an Ecology of Mind, p. 452. 3 Tbid., pp. 467-8. 179 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016399 movements of life partnered with an electro-m

arguments in Zhe Human Use of Human Beings seem closer to the 19th century than the 21st. In particular, although Wiener made reference throughout to Claude Shannon’s then-new work on information theory, he seems not to have fully embraced Shannon’s notion of information as consisting of irreducible, meaning-free