communism but it works now because our technology is better part xvii: even betterer technology edition
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Replying to @svigalae
They genuinely believe the calculation problem ceases to exist when computers get big enough.
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Replying to @Outsideness @svigalae
Lange dealt with the calculation nearly a century ago. This has always been a moot point
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The calculation problem is that nobody actually knows how to make a pencil. The knowledge is distributed, planning is impossible. We cannot build a robot that can fold a shirt. What makes you think we can build one that can run a business, or every business all at once?
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The division of labor does not make planning impossible. A pencil making company may not have the knowledge in hq on how to make every aspect of a pencil but if it has a vertically integrated supply chain it's still planning every step of the way.
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @coloniser_3000 and
The calculation problem if you'll recall was specific to pricing. Lange's solution wasnt "lol build a robot" it was to point out that pricing in capitalism and socialism should occur in the same manner. By trial and error
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Capitalist price-discovery is based on a system of incentives (to notice and respond) that no imaginable socialist commonwealth can emulate.
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Replying to @_leftcat @RealEnverHoxha and
Realistic adjustments to complex systems require a selection mechanism as final criterion. Describing that as a "cop-out" doesn't make it any less unsurpassable.
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Replying to @Outsideness @_leftcat and
If this is your point then you've already conceded all of this junk /can/ be automated. What practical difference then is there between natural selection for adjustments to systems and using a genetic algorithm with the same parameters
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A genetic algorithm running an economy would actually be capitalism.
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Replying to @Outsideness @_leftcat and
Not really. It wouldn't require private property or even exchange or money. A company can adjust its business model by trail and error without ever having to deal with hard budgets
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