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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Mar 2018
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    Information theory question: if you solve a macroeconomic institutional failure by “printing more money”, is there net entropic information loss from the economy? Is resulting extra inflation a way to not just socialize the cost of a failure but to “forget” that it ever happened?

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      2. Drew Austin‏ @kneelingbus 12 Mar 2018
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        If socializing the cost means transferring it from one group to another then wouldn't the forgetting mostly be done by the smaller group that transferred it away from themselves?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Mar 2018
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        Yes, but it can still lose info. If an unknown rich person dumps a lot of toxic but not uniquely identifiable trash anonymously in the public dump, whole town suffers, but some info is arguably lost. Or at least obscured.

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      2. Jules Pitt‏ @PittLabs 12 Mar 2018
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        You probably want to talk to @infotranecon about information theory and macroeconomics, as he's uniquely qualified to answer

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      3. Jules Pitt‏ @PittLabs 12 Mar 2018
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        (My crude economic understanding tells me that the Fed printing more money does not necessarily necessarily increase inflation, so I'm not even sure how to start thinking about the question)

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      1. Anthony Di Franco‏ @dfko_0 12 Mar 2018
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        Suppose the information about the economic state is in the distribution of wealth. Then that the way the new money is distributed either causes the wealth distribution to diverge from 'true' distribution or increase in absolute entropy. Then yes. See also https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624982.The_Entropy_Law_and_the_Economic_Process …

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