Comments on: Liberalism And Cybernetics : Hyperpost 6

By: Mindless Ones » Blog Archive » Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years – 1967

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:47:24 +0000

[...] Who always in the end comes down on the side of freedom. Not only is freedom morally right, but Ashby’s Law also says it’s pragmatically [...]

By: Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! The first review… and a spot of crowdsourcing « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:15:17 +0000

[...] onto the crowdsourcing question. One of the articles in the book is this one, on Liberalism and Cybernetics. Now this is absolutely essential to the themes of my book, but it talks about the Lib Dems and was [...]

By: Control Is An Illusion « A Trout In The Milk

Control Is An Illusion « A Trout In The Milk — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:14:24 +0000

[...] think, at just a little bit of a stretch, we could perhaps call it Ashby’s Law — you should click that link, by the way — which as Andrew tells us is all about having [...]

By: The Liberal Moment « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!

The Liberal Moment « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:32:18 +0000

[...] now, top-down, centralised, statist governance is a bad idea, for much the same reasons I argue here, and that the failures of the Labour government have been linked to its authoritarian tendencies [...]

By: Degrees Of Freedom – Mister Miracle, Darkseid, and Morrison Doing Kirby (or Why Kirby Matters) (Hyperpost 8) « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:32:06 +0000

[...] we know it doesn’t work like that, don’t [...]

By: Kieran

Kieran — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:03:47 +0000

I think most modern commentators view Universal Sufferage as a necessary component of democracy. The likes of Lockheed Martin are if anything equivalent to, say, 18th century Britain, accountable only to other members of their class.

By: Zom

Zom — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:46:15 +0000

Marvel Universe continuity: it’s Jurassic Park all over again

By: pillock

pillock — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:34:08 +0000

I like that the more control you seek to apply to a known and bounded situation, the more unknown and unbounded it becomes, even out through your very fingers…

Story of my life. No, really.

By: Andrew Hickey

Andrew Hickey — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:24:34 +0000

In part, yes…

By: Zom

Zom — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:16:33 +0000

So we’re going to be looking at canon as a misguided attempt to impose too much order on narrative possibility? Keen to read.