Orit Halpern
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first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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It can be sometimes.
I mean, a lot of times what we call hallucination might also just be sycophany, the machine generating response it thinks you want.
But hallucination also is a key feature of this problem where machines are feeding back on the same data to a point where they're no longer capable of generating, let's say, an answer that fits the real world, for lack of a better word.
Yeah.
You know, cybernetics, as everyone here has already suggested, was a really compelling idea.
And it spread like, I don't know, a good meme.
It was very popular.
And I think part of the popularity was the kind of
new way of imagining organizational management at scale.
And it was countries, as we've just suggested, but it was also cities.
At MIT, which had a huge urban planning department, a lot of people there, particularly a couple planners, one of them named Kevin Lynch, were really
influenced by these ideas, but it also had a huge influence on people in ecology and ecosystems management.
So individuals like the Odom brothers, who had been working with the atomic tests in the Marshall Islands, started tracing, for example, radiation moving through the ecosystem in the little fish and all this stuff.
Because radiation makes a really good visualization tool.
You can really trace it, the nitrogen and carbon cycles.
And they started thinking about these nitrogen and carbon cycles as feedback loops and in terms of information and communication too, which goes to show you how widely these ideas were kind of interpreted.
And the reason I'm bringing ecology is because it was a close integration to how people were thinking about urban systems and environmental systems.
And the fact that you could manage an environment and an urban system with the same tools, the same idea, if you could map...
all the kind of feedback loops and flow.
You could turn everything into a flow chart.
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