• RedFox@infosec.pub
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    11 months ago

    I assume you’re talking about an automated socialist style economy?

    I thought the USSR or a few other countries tried that in the last 40 or 50 years as computer networking became possible.

    Edit: Quick web search listed USSR, Chile, China.

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      11 months ago

      Yes it’s been tried before, but computing power has advanced so far beyond the 20th century when it was attempted last. We can do it.

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        11 months ago

        Do you think the previous failures were due to a lack of computing power?

        From what I’ve read, it seemed more like corruption and politics. Doesn’t matter if you had the most powerful computer ever in that case right?

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          The problem requires a vast army of bureaucrats to run the system, which is where the corruption comes from. Every additional human component of the system adds another layer vulnerability to bad actors. I think if they were automated away and rendered unnecessary, the central planning AI could run the economy with direct input from the masses. No need for bureaucrats.