Margarite “Peg” Otis

Margarite “Peg” Otis

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🔹Style of cutting-edge late 1970s structured system analysis 🔹Lifetime work fits on a 1.44MB floppy 🔹Admire/improve tech ideas of Doug Engelbart and Tim Berners-Lee 🔹Approach based in Donella Meadows, Tom Murphy (UCSD), Gregory Bateson, and Daniel Quinn

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#introduction I distill knowledge assertions to 7 elements to help humans visualize and navigate systems without external services or experts. It is an idea, not an artifact, although I use artifacts to express (obviously). My pub: lxVBtHHttRoSq_isZPq3VCNJvU6Ks6dPuZ4RhAvfbcc

Margarite “Peg” Otis
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The organism rejects information that annihilates it. The bigger question is how does the organism *know*. Is this knowledge carried within culture? If so, how?

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If language is a virus, then what are the antibodies? Are the antibodies bad actors or beneficial in this case? Perhaps this is all as it should be, and it is completely natural that the organism can't comprehend itself within a Zapffe view.

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Name a non-LotR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring. #RingofGyges #LOTR #FiveEasyPieces #JackNicholson

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I love how Engelbart quotes Vannevar Bush extensively. This is unlike those that see an idea and immediately try and pitch for VC using their own spin. This is also why I deeply respect Michael K. Bergman and his Knowledge Practionary ( #Peirce ) #DougEngelbart www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment...

dougengelbart.orgAugmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework - 1962 (AUGMENT,3906,)Official Copy: Final report of Doug Engelbart's in-depth study on augmenting human intellect and human effectiveness: a unifying framework for what makes us collectively capable and effective, a desig...
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Margarite “Peg” Otis
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“...the problem of how to transmit our ecological reasoning to those whom we wish to influence in what seems to us to be an ecologically "good" direction is itself an ecological problem. We are not outside the ecology for which we plan – we are always and inevitably a part of it.” ~ Gregory Bateson

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