The best Cybernetics books: Reddit reviews

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Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows is good https://www.amazon.se/Thinking-Systems-International-Donella-Meadows/dp/1603580557

I literally don't feel like I'm human. Not in a cool way where I'm special or unique. More like maybe my original destiny was to be a nonphysical systems planner for a planetary organism but something went wrong and now I have to live in a body.

I also find it much easier to understand myself and other people if I back off until I can see what's happening as a whole system. When I'm zoomed in, I see things as "behavior" or "personality traits" and they're confusing. When I stand back far enough that the system is holistically viewable, I can see that these "traits" or "behaviors" are simply emergent properties of the system as it currently functions.

INFJs, you would all love the work of Donella Meadows: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/1603580557

Yep. A lack of basic systems thinking is why we are all fucked. The term "feedback loop" came from this discipline. The more I learn about systems thinking and complexity theory the more I understand about the world and how deeply hopeless our plight is.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1603580557/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_N.a9FbRM79XRR

I used to agree with you, then I read this book.

The Simulation Hypothesis by Rizwan Virk. It’s a fantastic read and does offer proof. Did you know that specific particles change their behavior once their observed? There is also the Mandela Effect to contemplate, because I distinctly remember the Monopoly Man having a monocle.

I think that it’s a distinct possibility that we could be living in a simulation or game of some kind. Read the book, then get back to us 😁

The Simulation Hypothesis

Yes. He's written two others, available on Amazon. My understanding is Project Soul Catcher is more authoritative with the other being more advice for current victims.

http://www.amazon.com/Project-Catcher-Secrets-Cybernetic-Revealed/dp/1452804087

Duncan was also interviewed along with a couple ex-CIA agents on Jesse Ventura's show Brain Invaders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koQIjGDNYkw

This website run by activist Cheryl Welsh would be a great resource for anyone researching this: www.mindjustice.org

I have the 3rd one, by Steve Andreas, read it a long time ago when I was just starting with NLP. I liked it, but I dont know if it would be my recommendation for a beginner. Actually, I think a good one to start is "Psycho-Cybernetics" by dr Maxwell Maltz http://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Cybernetics-New-More-Living-Life/dp/0671700758/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428592103&sr=1-1&keywords=psycho-cybernetics

https://www.amazon.ca/Thinking-Systems-Primer-Donella-Meadows/dp/1603580557/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=thinking+in+systems&qid=1636645160&s=books&sr=1-1

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This book is good at explaining my perspective of how the existing means of production are being more and more squeezed to pay a living wage without increasing margins. It is also used to macroeconomic exams for universitys.

Or how someone like Elon could make $300 billion with a business that has only ever yielded a couple billion in profit, and how his net worth is not based on the value of labour he exploited as he hasn't even had $100 billion in revenue..

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Its because the financial liquidity injection QE and mortgage backed security asset purchase program is effectively bidding up the valuations or PE ratios of the means of production without them becoming more productive, therefore increasing the net worth of shareholders substantially without the company having to make an equal profit growth.

/u/The_Dude_of_Pala gave great insight, and points well to the idea that duality while is often not always a useless tool, so I give you the middle path of monistic riddles and dualistic finger pointing.

The teacher you’re looking for smiles in the mirror.

I have been a practicing secular Zen Buddhist/Taoist for long enough to realize, when dealing with dualistic thinkers, to give them a less dogmatic label: reality junkie.

We live in a world obsessed with empirical truth. Scientists and researchers galore. While the Dao teaches us that all things are transitory, some things are in a transition lasting eons. Some things transition in beautiful harmony, following similar ebbs and flows.

This is the insight of the world outside of the dichotomous boundary I see from other comments you’ve drawn as the “inner boundaries”. See the generalizations or abstractions, the “systems” if you will that govern the transitionary nature of the world, and the boundaries we invent to define these systems.

These abstractions of transitionary principles will help you become the leaf on the pond, the feather in the wind, the atom in the vacuum, following the ebbs, seeing the flows, and watching the cycles.

I don’t offer you a riddle, you can find your own map of the territory, or I can share one with you. This is up to you.

Once you do this, you will find the universe is speaking to you at all times, and you will be able to listen and learn from the greatest teacher.

Ashenden also wrote what I consider the VHDL Bible, so I would assume it's good. But I haven't seen any of this other books (nor this one since it had a plain green cover), so take my advice with a small chunk of salt.

No, the author's Robert Duncan. He was featured on Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory show Brain Invaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18PtOXrzDVE

Second book on Amazon: Project: Soul Catcher: Secrets of Cyber and Cybernetic Warfare Revealed

http://www.amazon.com/Project-Catcher-Secrets-Cybernetic-Revealed/dp/1452804087

There's a book called Psycho-Cybernetics that is the book on understanding and rebuilding self-image. That and No More Mr Nice Guy should be recommended reading for everyone in this subreddit.

100% agree. Listened to an audiobook a couple of weeks ago titled Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI so this whole issue of automation is fresh in my mind. Despite the variety of the 25 ideas in this book (some even in direct conflict with each other), there is an overwhelming theme where AI experts want or need to have conversations with policymakers.

Ethereum by Henning Diedrich

Just found this one with excellent reviews as well: Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, by Henning Diedrich, September 8, 2016; 360 pages, only available in dead-tree version.

Are you sure you want to know? The more you research TAMI, the more she researches you.

https://vimeo.com/55892113

https://www.amazon.com/Project-Catcher-Secrets-Cybernetic-Revealed/dp/1452804087

Im in the middle of reading Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations I'm loving it so far, it's covering all the terminology, and breaking everything down in a fairly concise way for the layman.

Great list. Making my way through a few of those.

I've also been reading this one:

Ethereum: Blockchains, Digital Assets, Smart Contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations by Henning Diedrich

Try reading Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz. I just began reading it not too long ago and it covers changing your personality. The book is often referred to as the original self-help book. Don't believe when people say it's impossible. You aren't the same person you were 10 years ago. People are always changing based on their experiences. You can create the experiences to make yourself into the person you want to be.

>If we're going down the perception route, and come to the conclusion that everything we perceive is subjective - then that includes the very existence of other actors (i.e. how do I know you're not a figment of my imagination).

Everything we perceive is subjective. Did you know that when light enters your eye, the lens of your eye inverts the incoming image and projects it upside down on your cornea? Yet you perceive the world as rightside up. This is because everything you perceive is virtual reality.

It doesn't matter if I am a figment of your imagination or not. In either case, you are perceiving me as an independent actor. In much the same way, there is no way to confirm that an objective universe exists, but it's irrelevant because you cannot act as if an objective universe exists, because action presumes existence.

>I also argue that there are varying degrees of subjectivity. So not all actors can be assumed to be equally non-objective.

To claim that there are varying "degrees" of subjectivity is to introduce the possibility of measuring subjective viewpoints against an objective measure, but without access to an objective viewpoint to measure them against, any measurement is ultimately subjective, and thus mere opinion.

You can never prove that thinking a torch is a electronic device is better or more objective than thinking a torch is magic.

You should read Erik Davis's <em>Techgnosis</em>. He makes a pretty solid argument that technology is simply the manifestation of human dreams of magic. Early man dreams of being able to light into the darkness, and can only imagine a far more advanced being possessing incomprehensible powers that is able to easily bring light into the darkness. So in a very real sense, a torch is magic.

Completely normal. Techgnosis was pretty interesting for that part. Every new domain, like the wild west or the internet, is always seen as an almost religious heaven of freedom and equality. But sooner or later, business follows and the normal commercial systems are established. Then the masses move in.

But internet does indeed multiplies the winner-takes-all tendencies in all normal business by a lot. Second places don't really count in cyberspace.

For anyone who wants to get a good understanding of resilience in general, I highly recommend the book Thinking In Systems. It has a great section on resiliency as a matter of good and bad system states.

Thank you for reading, Occasu.

Completely agree with change being a process (and truly one that is ongoing constantly whether you're aware of it or not).

Highly recommend the book Psycho-Cybernetics. That is what I'm currently reading & inspired a chunk of the article.

Link to book: http://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Cybernetics-New-More-Living-Life/dp/0671700758

If you havn't seen it yet the book The Designer's Guide to VHDL is an almost perfrect walk through of the language.

Ashenden is on the language committee and as far as I can tell is the only repository for example code for some of the higher level language features, especially from VHDL-2008.

Verilog and SystemVerilog would benefit greatly from having a book written of equal caliber.

Yes, but you would be aware of it. This is a good book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Project-Catcher-Secrets-Cybernetic-Revealed/dp/1452804087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1423436744&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=project+soul+catcher

Right now i'm reading this book, personally i don't have self-image issue, but still find it pretty useful.

http://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Cybernetics-New-More-Living-Life/dp/0671700758

To sum it up, it was written by a plastic surgeon. His observation was, that some people go through a surgery to "fix" something that cripples they self image, and after the surgery they became really self-confident (since the problem is fixed). But some patients - even when the surgery was successful - they can't SEE the change.

Well, in your case, you lost the weight, but your self-image is still the same, it's not healed. As i mentioned, i'm not done with the book yet, but the purpose of this book is, to help you to fix your self-image.

p.s.: you can even find the audiobook version on youtube, wink, wink

Check out the book Project Soul Catcher by Robert Duncan: http://www.amazon.com/Project-Catcher-Secrets-Cybernetic-Revealed/dp/1452804087%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-d-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1452804087

AI is far more advanced than people realize.

> People tell me I'm cute though

You deserve to tell yourself that, too!

I usually don't recommend this to people I don't know, because it's somewhat dated and at times overreaching, but you might benefit from Psycho-Cybernetics.

Maltz wrote it for some of his patients who after going through cosmetic surgery still felt incomplete and/or undesirable. I read it in my teens after changing from a shy scrawny kid into a fairly typical man, but still feeling like a little boy inside. It helped me reassess my self-image and deal with some emotional insecurities that I had carried around with me. Maybe it'll do the same for you?

If you are interested in this kind of thing I recommend "Between human and machine" by David A. Mindell. Amazon link and a lecture at MIT about the book.

Seriously, read Psycho-Cybernetics, it's not a multi-million copy bestseller for nothing.