Depends, do you have ~$500 to spare? I ask because the single best book on cybernetics (and I mean it, it feels a tad bit absurd how much better than other works on the topic it seems to me) costs roughly that, isn't available on Libgen, and nobody dares mention it anywhere in fear of driving prices on used copies up, because nobody wants the publisher to get any money for it, cause while they sure charge a lot for i…
Well now I need to know.
Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
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Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#42Depends, do you have ~$500 to spare? I ask because the single best book on cybernetics (and I mean it, it feels a tad bit absurd how much better than other works on the topic it seems to me) costs roughly that, isn't available on Libgen, and nobody dares mention it anywhere in fear of driving prices on used copies up, because nobody wants the publisher to get any money for it, cause while they sure charge a lot for i…
Can you please DM me the title of the book?
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#43Depends, do you have ~$500 to spare? I ask because the single best book on cybernetics (and I mean it, it feels a tad bit absurd how much better than other works on the topic it seems to me) costs roughly that, isn't available on Libgen, and nobody dares mention it anywhere in fear of driving prices on used copies up, because nobody wants the publisher to get any money for it, cause while they sure charge a lot for i…
Brand?
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you talking about the 2nd edition of "Design for a Brain"? There are embarassingly many cybernetics books this could refer to (particularly from the midcentury)...
Probably not: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5791995M/Design_for_a_brain
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm super curious as the rest. Wild guess, are you talking about Brain of the firm?
That's only $120 new from the publisher.
Re: Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?
#46Depends, do you have ~$500 to spare? I ask because the single best book on cybernetics (and I mean it, it feels a tad bit absurd how much better than other works on the topic it seems to me) costs roughly that, isn't available on Libgen, and nobody dares mention it anywhere in fear of driving prices on used copies up, because nobody wants the publisher to get any money for it, cause while they sure charge a lot for i…
Are you talking about the 2nd edition of "Design for a Brain"? There are embarassingly many cybernetics books this could refer to (particularly from the midcentury)...