Monday, February 26, 2018

Operating Systems, Application Programs and Feedback Loops

Just off the top of my head thinking about what law is and what law does.  Like everything it is fundamentally about what a conceptual or real thing is all about:  It is all about two things.  What a thing is and what a thing does.  It is object oriented.

My definition: Law is a top down design for bottom application.  Bottom application is implementation and  enforcement of the intent of law and its definition of its terms.  The law works to control regulate either positive or negative objectives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law

There is a bottom up assembly in the making of law.  It is the formulation of law by those to whom the law will apply in choices of self governance.  Some sort of social structure in which this formulation takes place.  Once basic structure for making law is established like an operating system then application programs are designed to create laws.  These application systems in operation produce feedback for (either or both) modification of the application program and operating system.

In the Information Age more people are learning the structural framework of Operating System and Application Program and applying it as a metaphor model for an increasingly wide range of conceptual systems.

This is the way I see it:  Law design structure framework is an Operating System and a multitude collection of Application Programs.  What law is and what law does.

There is an ambiguity conundrum in the structure of law.  It is designed to be precise but where precision fails it must be subject to judgment in application.  That is the problem.

Who and how should the law be judged?

It is a feedback design loop that judges the law itself as well as its application.  When must the Operating system be updated?  When must application programs be changed?

The whole "Law" thing viewed as a Problem Domain is in the bigger picture a Problem Domain of a Social Operating System and its Application Programs.  Putting it in that frame subjects it to analysis in the terms of precise definitions and meanings that domain.  For example: Private and Public.  Public being Open Source and Private being --well--- being Private and Proprietary in some degree of Ownership.  Stakeholder is a concept of the Information Age that relates to "Ownership" concepts of Public and Private.  The Public has a "Stake" in the Private sector Operating Systems and Application Programs.  That is an interesting point of view, point of entry to the Private Domain.  One that the Private Domain has its own view regarding their prerogative's.  A private view that they own and are a stakeholder in the Public Sector Operating System and Application Programs.

Who "Owns" What?  What rights to what property that is real or conceptual or has a real/conceptual binding in terms of definition that ranges from absolute to whatever can be "proved" to the extent of "fact".  To the extent of whatever "proof" or "fact is defined to be and mean?

Interesting thoughts on a Sunday Morning.  A time every week to think about such bigger things.

The bottom line of these thoughts is:  The Law system has a fundamental "Feedback Control Loop" failure.  A failure of implementation at the point of application that does not result in modification of the Application```

Feedback Loop to modify system function operation has both bug and a feature aspects depending on what entity benefits from either aspect.

As a bug Feedback Loop performs serves to identify and correct macro system rule design for the overall improvement of systemic operation to accomplish the benefit of system objectives.  Or, below Operating system level modify Application Programs to introduce exceptions to a rule within the domain of the Application Program to benefit Application Program purpose and objective.

Failure of the Feedback Loop to function for Operating System and/or Application Program design intent is a feature to entities that do not want change because it is not in their self interest.  What is a feature to that entity is a bug to a mority.  If the majority stakeholders in a system do not want a change in the Operating System because it is not to their benefit then it is a good thing....(unless they elect Trump but that is another matter related to deceit).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

When established methods to modify Operating Systems and Application Programs do not work for the benefit of user groups there are options!  Social Media is a weaponized tool.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-biggers-student-walkouts_us_5a942e1ae4b02cb368c4382e

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