Publications
The LLM as variety transducer: Ashby's intelligence-amplifier architecture and Beer's viable system model as a diagnostic and predictive framework
Rebuilding Ashby's Amplifier
Prompt, context, harness, and loop engineering as the components of a 1956 design
The Hollow Human: A Cybernetic Anatomy of AI and Ethics
70 years ago Ross Ashby designed an 'intelligence-amplifier'. Have we finally built it?
Intelligence as appropriate selection — and the category error at the heart of AI
Intelligence as Selection: Ashby, Beer, and the Design of Viable Autonomous Vehicles
The Machine That Outplayed Its Designer
Ashby's 1952 question, and the sixty-five-year journey to its answer
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