flan [they/them]

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Cake day: August 16th, 2022

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  • It makes complete sense. How can an kind-of-darwinian-but-confounded-by-misaligned-incentives system compete with a command economy that leverages the latest technology and appears to be radically adaptible to new conditions because its direction is centrally managed?

    Yes perhaps 100 years ago before the invention of microprocessors that can do trillions or quadrillions of mathematical operations per second and glass fiber network infrastructure that can carry terabits per second of data it was “better” to have a million monkeys and a few really greedy monkeys hacking away at their typewriters but times have changed.

    “Unless we figure out a different way to defend the way our economies work, we know what’s going to happen,” she said, “and it’s going to have significantly damaging economic and political outcomes for our systems”.

    Yeah let’s defend the shit, inefficient way of doing it instead of adopting the obviously better model. What a smart idea. Of course the west’s attempt to do it would be so marred by corruption we’d just end up with Fascism 2 straight out of Mussolini’s “corporatism”.