Cybernetics

Explore Q3 2024: BlockScience as a cybernetic organization, data intermediary networks, KOI design, grants for algorithmic policymaking, and governance research.

Read our article: 'Operationalizing the GitcoinDAO Anti-Sybil Process' to explore insights from BlockScience experts on this topic.

MBID provides a powerful machine-readable framework to design & analyze institutions, & ensure adaptabillity & alignment with intended purpose.

Video playlist on engineering systems, cybernetic steering, and the roles of humans and infrastructure within complex adaptive networks

Video: Zargham explores political and functional autonomy and four (4) sub-types of autonomy: individual, collective, tactical, and strategic.

Examines tensions & trade-offs between functional autonomy, political autonomy & subtypes (4): strategic, tactical, collective & individual autonomy.

On social & technical behaviors in Gitcoin Grant Round 9, & proposes a framework for community-based policy making in semi-automated systems.

Institutional analysis exploring organizational cybernetics, systems thinking & viable systems models that inform BlockScience's functional architecture

Stafford Beer articulated the “Viable System Model” (VSM) in his 1972 book ‘Brain of the Firm’ as a management tool to determine the viability of an organization.

Developing digital infrastructure to support conversations between organizations & enable small specialized firms to outcompete large institutions.

Drawing on Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems Model, this research paper bridges DAOs & cybernetics via two main principles of organization: viability & purpose.