Sharing our experimental call summaries: Al-generated digests for weekly Yak Collective live study groups. A step forward in exploration of human-machine collaborative cognition and Yak Oracle and Yak Memory systems for collective intelligence capabilities.
Discussion Overview
Review of Niklas Luhmann’s “The Society of Society” (1997) and his broader work from the 1960s-70s
Discussion focused on Luhmann’s systems theory approach to sociology and its potential applications to LLM-human relationships
Source material: Review by Daniel Lee, Pennsylvania State University, DuBois (Sociological Theory 18:2 July 2000)
https://rencanaresearch.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/32e2c-the-society-of-society-the-grand-finale-of-niklas-luhmann.pdf
Key Theoretical Concepts
Communication as fundamental to society rather than geographical/political boundaries
Functional differentiation in social systems
Double contingency in communication systems
Autopoietic (self-producing) characteristics of social systems
Non-normative and non-anthropocentric approach to sociology
Influence of cybernetics and systems theory
Connection to Zettelkasten method (basis for modern tools like Roam)
Applications to LLMs and Modern Context
Potential framework for analyzing LLM-society integration without anthropocentric bias
Relevance to vec2vec translation capabilities in LLMs
Connection to modern knowledge management systems (Rome, graph-based notebooks)
Implications for message persistence and collective memory in LLM-augmented communication
Discussion of how LLMs enable tackling more complex topics in shorter timeframes
Comparison to other frameworks (Bruno Latour’s actor network theory, Timothy Morton’s hyperobjects)
Need for empirical grounding when applying to current LLM developments
Next Steps
Continue exploring theoretical frameworks for understanding LLM-society relationships
Discord:
https://discord.com/channels/692111190851059762/1385629257509769348/1385629378012119205