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saubeidlyesterday at 6:58 PM1 replyview on HN

We could finally try finish the experiment Allende started before the CIA couped away a democratically elected president.

Do something like project Cybersyn [0], but give all decision making to a digital planning engine.

No humans, no apparatchiks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn


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nradovyesterday at 7:43 PM

That's so naive. Economic central planning is a fool's errand. Regardless of how good the computers are, it can never work because it's impossible to gather accurate demand data. Only free market economics can ever work at scale over the long term.

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