A 1993 Langdon Winner paper titled for this sort of object critiques the SCOT school for not having any general positions backing their work. Mario Bunge’s mathematical theory of these objects inspired Frank Pasquale’s book likening society to one of them. Gregory Bateson’s claim that the “explanatory principle” underlies these objects inspired William Ashby to apply them to cybernetics. These objects name a verb defined as how “technical work is made (*) invisible by its own success” by Bruno Latour. Intelligent design advocate Michael Behe proposed “irreducible complexity” in a book titled for Charles Darwin’s one of these objects. Machine learning models with poor interpretability are often likened to these objects. For 10 points, what name refers to systems defined only by their inputs and outputs, and also airline flight recorders? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 36% | 103.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Floridovician | 10 | -5 |
| Michael Coates | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 75 | 10 |
| Aseem Keyal | Broken Socal Scene | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 78 | -5 |
| John Lawrence | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 79 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 85 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | BHSU X | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 89 | -5 |
| Mitch McCullar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 93 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | 97 | 10 |
| Tim Morrison | BHSU B | Big is moving to Evanston! | 106 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Halifax Shipping Services | Do re mi fa serving negs | 108 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | It's not X, but... defenders | 108 | 10 |
| Raul Passement | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 109 | -5 |
| Dan Ni | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Broken Socal Scene | 126 | 10 |
| John Marvin | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | 127 | 10 |
| Seth Ebner | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | BHSU X | 129 | 10 |