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Dan Davies’s 2024 book The Unaccountability Machine drew on neglected theories by this man to explain “how the world lost its mind.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this British thinker who co-founded the operations research firm SIGMA and created the Viable System Model. This author of the tome Brain of the Firm coined the phrase “The purpose of a system is what it does.”
ANSWER: Stafford Beer [or Anthony Stafford Beer]
[10m] Like anthropologist Gregory Bateson, Stafford Beer was part of this mid-20th-century interdisciplinary field. This field’s pioneer Norbert Wiener gave it a name derived from the Greek for “steersman.”
ANSWER: cybernetics [accept management cybernetics] (The Ancient Greek word for “steersman” is kybernetes.)
[10e] Beer became a recluse after this Chilean socialist, whom Beer advised on the never-used price control system Project Cybersyn, was deposed in a coup by general Augusto Pinochet.
ANSWER: Salvador Allende [or Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateYale0101020ME
Chicago BHarvard0101020ME
Columbia AUC Berkeley A0101020ME
Columbia BWinona State001010E
Cornell BNorth Carolina B10101030HME
Georgia StateFlorida0101020ME
Georgia TechIowa State0101020ME
Illinois AChicago A0101020ME
IndianaNorthwestern10101030HME
Johns HopkinsCornell A0101020ME
LSEPenn State001010E
MITVirginia Tech0101020ME
MichiganRIT0101020ME
NYUWUSTL B0101020ME
Ohio StateMaryland001010E
OttawaUC Berkeley B0101020ME
RutgersNorth Carolina A0101020ME
TexasToronto B0101020ME
Toronto AWUSTL A0101020ME
Toronto CMinnesota001010E
UCFIllinois B001010E
VirginiaVanderbilt0101020ME
Waterloo AStanford0101020ME
Waterloo BBritish Columbia0101020ME

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2025 ACF NationalsYes2418.75100%79%8%