#Knowledge first or #belief first #epistemology? Or even data first if you fall foul of #dataism. Data is a mechanism in the process.
What’s if neither knowledge or data is ‘first’? What if knowing is built on #value and #values instead?
Values -> value -> knowledge -> belief
(If you want an order).
I got here by way of #SystemsTheory rather than purely traditional routes.
@ketanjoshi.co i would say #collapse in systems dynamics describes a shift in dominance of feedbacks. in the context of complexity theory it is used to describe rapid breakdown of complexity. but it is never used in any of these professions as a technical term. they have their own, very specific jargon and definitions of different concepts of collapse.
too many people #talkcollapse who never read any #systemstheory.
2025 is looking like a great year for work at the intersection of #categorytheory, #systemstheory and #probabilitytheory, this thread will be a very biased collection of works I'm hoping to read as soon as possible!
Starting with:
"Logical Aspects of Virtual Double Categories"
https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCT_bot/113921693949589956
so i am going to post a thread of some graphs about the human situation on the planet. some show data, some show concepts. all of them are going to be pretty depressing, so buckle up.
Well. I have become a person who reads books that look like this now. #systemstheory
Culture change is neither hard nor easy.
Neither fast nor slow.
Neither good nor bad.
Culture is a bit like the weather:
you cannot change it, even though it changes all the time.
Culture is read-only.
... cont'd 5/5
Schaeffer et. al. argue that the emergent abilities are predictably acquired according to a smooth scaling law.
Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004
Prompt engineering: Chain-of-thought reasoning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_engineering#Chain-of-thought
Here’s my #Introduction - 
I’m Ed and I run a #Consultancy called Emerging Field - I work in #PublicSector #Data teams leading on #Innovation, #Strategy, #UserResearch, #ServiceDesign, and also contribute to research on #DataGovernance and #DataStewardship. I’m a #Facilitator online and in person.
Toots about - #Openness, #Participation, #UCD, #SocialJustice, #LGBTQIA+ issues, #CriesIntoTheVoid etc. Here to learn more about #DataJustice, #SystemsTheory, #CommunityBuilding, #Degrowth.
These days, my interests are pretty much all over the place, but of late I find myself paying attention to: #python, #rust, #wasm, #generativeart, #embeddedsystems, #systemstheory, #systemsthinking, and probably a couple dozen other things that I'll probably think of as soon as I hit publish on this. 
An overdue #introduction (thanks for the prompt when I switched instances @aussocialadmin )
My name is Scott and I live in Sydney (on Wangal Country in the Inner West). My pronouns are he / him.
I was born and raised in Canada (Alberta, even), and have lived in some great places around the world (Montreal, NYC, Vermont, rural Kenya). Being a Canadian man of a certain age, yes, I play hockey. Even in Australia.
I've been very (not extremely) online since the 90s. First it was rec.music.phish, then fark.com, then the Big Tech Socials.
I strive to behave with compassion and to be more kind than nice. But I also shitpost from time to time because internet.
I'm interested in lots of things and barely maintain a blurred boundary between personal and professional. See hashtags below or on my profile for a more specific list, but I think it's generally encompassed by the concept of #interbeing which I understand as being coined by Thich Nhat Hanh and drawn from Vietnamese and older Buddhist concepts.
Hashtags ftw: #anthropology #anarchism #buddhism #collaboration #collectiveImprovisation #complexity #complexSystems #conviviality #culture #decolonisation #design #designResearch #engagedAnthropology #engagedBuddhism #engagedDesign #ethnography #foresight #futures #hockey #improvisation #JustTransition #music #pluriverse #politicalEcology #protopia #serviceDesign #strategicDesign #systemsTheory #systemsThinking #speculativeEverything
