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  • The Ludditetheluddite@assemblag.es
    Oct 19, 2026, 12:08 PM

    @hipsterelectron @abucci

    I'm almost positive that Beer never used the acronym himself, but I know that he uses the phrase at the beginning of "Heart of Enterprise" in a discussion about the innate subjectivity of the observer when diagnosing system behavior and drawing system boundaries. If anything, I'd say that people reading that passage would find their belief of LLM consciousness challenged, not supported. (1/2)

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  • The Ludditetheluddite@assemblag.es
    Oct 19, 2026, 12:15 PM

    @hipsterelectron @abucci

    The point he builds to is that, when bringing your own subjectivity into a system, you should challenge yourself to understand it on its own terms, which involves understanding its inputs and responses to those inputs, not your pre-conceived notions of its intent. Instead, we should "analyze a situation from the point of view of its regulatory phenomena," i.e., which inputs are ignored, prioritized etc. (2/2)

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