From: Ross A. Finlayson (extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 05:04:07 MST
On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 07:07 PM, Reason wrote:
>
>
> --> Robert J. Bradbury
>
>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Reason wrote:
>>
>>> The very fact that you speak of an "implementation" is a
>> problem. Economies
>>> are not implemented; or at least ones that succeed are not. They just
>>> happen; an economy is self-organization in planned action and
>> distribution
>>> of resources. The most efficient economies are those that are
>> left alone by
>>> the State.
>>
>> How about the "most efficient economies -- we know about to date --
>> are those that are left alone by the state"?
>
> True enough; one shouldn't rule out, say, an uberAI capable of managing
> an
> economy/society better than the free market price system does. I believe
> some of my way-back-when posts mentioned such a thing in passing.
>
> Reason
> http://www.exratio.com/
>
We might as well rule out an AI governor, sadly enough capitalism would
make it greedy, unless of course it was programmed to be egalitarian;
democracy, and even Athenian democracy, is the best way to govern equals.
Ross
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