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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Socialism in an A.I. World
 
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Ormi
Feb 7, 2005

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It's dangerous to attribute the historical failure of central planning solely to human error and limitation while ignoring the political motivations that shaped economic policy. Soviet planners didn't overproduce heavy industry because they were ignorant of what people really wanted, they did it because they were convinced it was what the country and the socialist project needed by providing work, cheap infrastructure, and materiel. Those kinds of structural choices would be the basic inputs in any kind of cybernetic or AI system. The only way around this is a fully participatory system, which would likely generate its own social tensions and inefficiencies.

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