Herb Simon's 'Sciences of the Artificial' Offers Timeless Vocabulary for Agentic Systems
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-08-23
A scholar shares that from a brief Ph.D. stint, reading Herb Simon's 'Sciences of the Artificial' provided a timeless conceptual vocabulary for thinking about agentic systems under optimization pressure.
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