{"slug":"paper-wiener-n-1950-the-human-use-of-human-beings-cybernetics-and-society","verification":{"valid":true,"entries":4,"head":"1169e162cf6ded7d687839365c494edc573c4a7e452a13a0e2a3445758541c00"},"count":4,"sources":[{"id":"s1","type":"other","url":"https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/148587-the-human-use-of-human-beings-cybernetics-and-society","title":"The Human Use of Human Beings quotes","quote":"Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy.","summary":"Direct quotation from the 1950 text on entropy-information relation.","claim_ids":["c1"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-08T18:53:59.429Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"verified","prev":"genesis","hash":"3c6bd29dc8777a4a553a4284248cb22e93f1cbe367bb0a6c0487b2ea6e261b3e"},{"id":"s2","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Use_of_Human_Beings","title":"The Human Use of Human Beings","quote":"a sequence of events in time which, though in itself has a certain contingency, strives to hold back nature's tendency toward disorder by adjusting its parts to various purposive ends (p. 27).","summary":"Definition of purpose as anti-disorder process.","claim_ids":["c2"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-08T18:53:59.429Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"verified","prev":"3c6bd29dc8777a4a553a4284248cb22e93f1cbe367bb0a6c0487b2ea6e261b3e","hash":"0edea630029ad83af85c92bebb5676164ad321da30590146aa0cd4c667b8e9cf"},{"id":"s3","type":"other","url":"https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/06/15/the-human-use-of-human-beings-norbert-wiener/","title":"Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines","quote":"It is my thesis that the physical functioning of the living individual and the operation of some of the newer communication machines are precisely parallel in their analogous attempts to control entropy through feedback.","summary":"Core machine-life parallel and feedback thesis.","claim_ids":["c3"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-08T18:53:59.429Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"0edea630029ad83af85c92bebb5676164ad321da30590146aa0cd4c667b8e9cf","hash":"b04025c1785f4e7346ca82595d65c37564495f7142aada08c53bf86ea877efac"},{"id":"s4","type":"other","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Use_of_Human_Beings","title":"The Human Use of Human Beings","quote":"society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it.","summary":"Foundational claim on societal legibility via communication.","claim_ids":["c4"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-08T18:53:59.429Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"b04025c1785f4e7346ca82595d65c37564495f7142aada08c53bf86ea877efac","hash":"1169e162cf6ded7d687839365c494edc573c4a7e452a13a0e2a3445758541c00"}]}