Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety and Autonomy / Stafford Beer // Javier Livas

Stafford Beer explains the Law of Requisite Variety, also called Ashby's Law in honor of W.Ross Ashby his cybernetician friend. Beers ponders on the dangers of the inability to foresee the consequences of the variety explosion due to come in the future as everybody wants more and more autonomy.

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Science & Technology

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• Management
• Cybernetics
• Stafford
• Beer
• Ross
• Ashby
• Law
• of
• Requisite
• Variety
• autonomy
• Viable
• System
• Model
• Javier
• Livas

[Rickdeckard2020]

If theres a video that explains this in a different way or in other words let me know (I dont understand)

[JAVIERLIVAS]

@Rickdeckard2020 Try the YOUTUBE VIDEO: Management Cybernetics: the Law of Requisite Variety

[ajmal87]

Interesting article on the systems blog called 'requisite variety and the rest of it'

[ajmal87]

Interesting article on the systems blog

[pgjr00]

So chaos will generally flood the situation, and thus you need requisite variety to control it. I think I understand that as being Ashby's Law of requisite variety. A system to organise the level of variety at a lower recursive level.

It's hard to understand this video with that stunner of a chic popping up!

Thanks for these videos they are brilliant especially as I'm studying systems thinking.

[riverlioness]

The world has been moving away from Tyranny? Really..

[iorbit]

I don't understand. Why would you want to regulate variety?

[mj011n1r]

An economy is a complex adaptive system. The adaptive system simplifies in response to the simple control system. This manifests as suppression of division of labor.

Thank you for posting this.  I have been trying to explain this for 2 years...now I have support.