In honor of Spooktober, here's a real... Well, though there is a very special spooky version of the Emmy's Black Box theme song within, the content of the podcast is not so much one of fear but of hope. I spoke with Paul Pangaro, PhD, President of The American Society for Cybernetics and Visiting Scholar of Computational Design at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture (previously a Professor of Practice in Human Computer Interaction). We dived into a bit of history around the term Cybernetics itself, and also how the system of Cybernetics played a role in the development and understanding of computation and, more specifically, artificial intelligence. We also talked about the state of Cybernetics today, and our hopes for Cybernetics in the future. As always, please feel free to tweet my @emmysblackbox with your thoughts/opinions about the podcast.

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Traditional models of rational action treat the agent as though it is cleanly separated from its environment, and can act on that environment from the outside. Such agents have a known functional relationship with their environment, can model their environment in every detail, and do not need to reason about themselves or their internal parts. We provide an informal survey of obstacles to formalizing good reasoning for agents embedded in their environment. Such agents must optimize an environment that is not of type ``function''; they must rely on models that fit within the modeled environment; and they must reason about themselves as just another physical system, made of parts that can be modified and that can work at cross purposes.

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Rami Malek won an Emmy for his performance as Elliot Alderson in "Mr. The actor has been very effective in the role that it's curious to learn how things would have turned out if Malek was not cast for it. Series creator Sam Esmail said the show would not have seen the light of day if he did not find Malek. In an interview with Recode, Esmail said: "I thought we were in real trouble. I was contemplating not doing the show because we were not finding the guy.

Rami Malek said it better than anyone: "Please tell me you're seeing this, too." It was a reference to his Mr. Robot character Elliot's tenuous grip on reality, but as he stood there accepting his Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, it was also the phrase so many viewers had to be whispering to themselves for hours. Throughout last night's telecast, underdogs like Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany actually won, TV's growing diversity was celebrated (take that, Oscars), and streaming services proved their method of shaking up the TV model was working by scoring scads of trophies. It felt like a dream. Sure, Jimmy Kimmel wasn't the best host, and there was a sense of immobility at the top, as HBO's Veep and Game of Thrones took home Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Drama Series, respectively, for the second year in a row.

"Downton Abbey" and "The Good Wife" have racked up 47 Emmy acting nominations over the course of their runs, and you can bet your Yorkshire pudding that voters are going to send these two departing shows out with a warm embrace. Anything else would be a slap in the face, something we know "Good Wife" fans do not appreciate one bit. Analysis: "Mad Men's" Jon Hamm finally won this Emmy last year. Will it now be Spacey's turn? But voters have an array of actors from new shows this year, including some – Giamatti ("Billions"), Aaron Paul ("The Path") and Bobby Cannavale ("Vinyl") – who have won Emmys for past work.

Three weeks after FX's Reagan-era spy drama "The Americans" was more or less ignored by Emmy voters last year (again!), the Television Critics Assn. You could view the award as a rebuke to the Television Academy or just read it at face value as a celebration of the show's artful, seamless storytelling and extraordinary acting. The question now is: Will Emmy voters remember that award, along with the Peabody that "The Americans" won last year, and finally nominate the program for drama series? As much as I'd like to think that Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields' show and its cast -- particularly leads Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys -- will finally break through for its fourth and, arguably, best season, I'm not optimistic. For this to happen, the 19,000-plus voting members of the academy (specifically, the ones who haven't been voting for "The Americans" the last three years) will probably need to know the events of its first three seasons for the current betrayals and soul-crushing disappointments to fully resonate.