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buybuydandavis comments on How should negative externalities be handled? (Warning: politics) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 13 May 2013 05:36:59AM 1 point [-]

If we have enough power to do functional distributed planning, we have enough computational power to do functional central planning.

The calculations that are most relevant are the valuations people put on things - I prefer this over that. No, you don't have enough artificial computing power to detect and properly simulate the choices of 6bil+ humans.

Comment author: DanielLC 13 May 2013 06:25:55AM 0 points [-]

Unless I'm misunderstanding what central planning is, it's still considered central planning to have the government sell you everything and figure out how much of what to make through the same methods corporations use.