If we ask for victory and do not know what we mean by it, we shall find the ghost knocking at our door.
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics
If we ask for victory and do not know what we mean by it, we shall find the ghost knocking at our door.
With the Westphalian order (1648), the nation-state becomes the dominant information agent. Post-Bretton Woods, a “variety of multi-agent systems” emerge and empower non-state agents, from individuals to collectives (168-79).

The first conversation between conscious A.I.