Are you able to expand any more on his thoughts about cybernetics/control theory? Plus can you tell me any more about what kind of Chesterton’s fences are being removed? Are these internal beliefs or are people breing convinced to break social norms?
As far as Chesterton’s fences being removed, you might imagine that Bob has habit X. Then Bob gets told in a convincing way that he has habit X because it’s what’s benefitial in a hunter gather society or that the habit is based on some cultural battle where the stronger side preveiled in enforcing their cultural norms. That can both be internal beliefs or social norms.
The one more problematic case I heard about involved a person doing mind hacking and taking drugs to do so.
If I remember right Vassar suggested reading Norbert Wiener and being aware that DARPA funded the control theory research because they were actually interested in control.
When a persons behavior is strongly driven by the feedback of a control system, they won’t be using their human cognition freely.
Are you able to expand any more on his thoughts about cybernetics/control theory? Plus can you tell me any more about what kind of Chesterton’s fences are being removed? Are these internal beliefs or are people breing convinced to break social norms?
As far as Chesterton’s fences being removed, you might imagine that Bob has habit X. Then Bob gets told in a convincing way that he has habit X because it’s what’s benefitial in a hunter gather society or that the habit is based on some cultural battle where the stronger side preveiled in enforcing their cultural norms. That can both be internal beliefs or social norms.
The one more problematic case I heard about involved a person doing mind hacking and taking drugs to do so.
If I remember right Vassar suggested reading Norbert Wiener and being aware that DARPA funded the control theory research because they were actually interested in control.
When a persons behavior is strongly driven by the feedback of a control system, they won’t be using their human cognition freely.