• @social.coop
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for the tip, @liaizon

    https://monoskop.org/images/e/e3/Beer_Stafford_Designing_Freedom.pdf

    I read more of the part you quoted down-thread, about systems needing some centralized and some decentralized features. And I agree.

    I have been pushing decentralization in several recent Fedi threads, but that’s situational.

    We started developing economic network software centralized, and then discovered the needs for network members to have their own agency. so some some decent. But also to be coordinated, so some cent.

    @technology

    • wakest ⁂@social.wake.stOP
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      2 years ago

      @bhaugen @technology I think this point is really fascinating. The idea that really what is needed is a *balance* or equilibrium between centralization and decentralization and that is really whats being fought for.

      • @social.coop
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        2 years ago

        @liaizon
        Agreed. It would also be interesting to tease out some of the details in Fedi-related systems, as Stafford Beer does in his own systems.

        That would be a longer conversation…

        @technology

        • wakest ⁂@social.wake.stOP
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          2 years ago

          @bhaugen @technology I really highly recommend listening to Beer’s whole lecture linked above if you have a spare 3 hours sometime. I would love to discuss it more, it feels very relevant to the current time

          • @social.coop
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            2 years ago

            @liaizon 3 hours is hard to spare these days. Maybe we can pick away at them as bedtime podcasts, at the risk of falling asleep…

            I’ll read more of that text, though. I can speed-read to some extent, at least much faster than listening to somebody talk.

            @technology