Ashby’s law is not a good guide for practice

BTW: German version here/Deutsche Version hier. Again and again and in different contexts W. Ross Ashby’s „Law of Necessary Diversity“ is quoted and I have never heard a contradiction. I read Ashby’s book „Introduction to Cybernetics“ a long time ago and learned a lot from it. The law so much quoted (chapter 11/6), of course, […]