Central planning is unbeatable as a resource allocation mechanism for small systems. As you attempt to scale it up, it becomes terribly ineffective, to such an extent that decentralized control algorithms wastly outperform it, despite being inherently wasteful
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The objective function isn't always known e.g. GANs. RL problems also involve objectives that can only be sampled from. I get the local vs global argument, but it's unclear what you mean about backprop being limited by objectives.
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"known" objective doesn't mean "can be expressed analytically as a func of the data", it means you know what you're optimizing for from the start. Your GAN implementation itself is an expression of a known optimization objective. "Unknown objective" refers to open-ended problems.
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Hallo there is your unroll: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1013361461316476928.html … See you soon.
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This thread is about exactly the kinds of technology decisions I'm constantly weighing the pros and cons of. The core domain we work on has non-differentiable functions that need optimization. But I believe there are ways to solve it well in a split way using both modes properly.
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Central planning fails because it cannot allocate resources that are not directly consumable such as freight transport because it lacks a price system to effectively compare alternatives. See "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" by Von Mises.
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