Cybernetics and AI history

Intelligence as appropriate selection — and the category error at the heart of AI

Ashby's 1952 question, and the sixty-five-year journey to its answer

Call it entropy...no one knows what entropy really is.

A limit accepted, and the law of requisite variety

30 September 2026

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Palimpsestic syndromes, adumbrationism, and laws of eponymy

24 September 2026

70th anniversary of Ashby's presentation at Dartmouth's summer AI workshop

Ashby set out to amplify intelligence, not simulate it. Seventy years on, I think that's what we've built.

23 July 2026