Regulation & requisite variety
Research
The Status of Requisite Variety, Revisited
Ashby's Law as a principle-theory constraint
The LLM as variety transducer: Ashby's intelligence-amplifier architecture and Beer's viable system model as a diagnostic and predictive framework
Intelligence as Selection: Ashby, Beer, and the Design of Viable Autonomous Vehicles
Writing
Ashby's Variety & Shannon's Entropy - A History
Shannon, Bourbaki and his journal: where Ashby's variety came from
Ashby's Variety & Shannon's Entropy
Variety, entropy, information, and the regulator as a correction channel
Call it entropy...no one knows what entropy really is.
A limit accepted, and the law of requisite variety
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Palimpsestic syndromes, adumbrationism, and laws of eponymy