Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "Can Communism Triumph With Artificial Intelligence?" video.

  1. The problem is not that socialism needs more data to work, but that it needs to be Laplace's Demon, knowing the position and momentum of every particle in the universe to predict the future and no amount of AI will be able to calculate the information it does not have. The free market, on the other hand, works like the balance of animals in nature. It incentivizes individuals to exploit imbalances for personal benefit and thus rebalance the system. It allows some level of inefficiency and impractical novelty because shocks to the system may cause such an anomaly to survive where more efficient organisms might fail. The push and pull of extinction and mutation cull the impractical while allowing for innovation and redundancy to protect from unpredictable future events. A top-down system, even with an unethical amount of data and the most perfect calculation, cannot know that a lab worker might accidentally spread a virus, or that a hurricane might hit an unprepared community. It cannot predict the accidental discovery of a new battery technology or a breakthrough in a stalled energy science. We should learn from the Gros Michel Banana. They were all one single plant with no genetic diversity and no variation in biological defense mechanism. The Panama Disease hit them, and the Gros Michel went from ubiquitous to nearly extinct worldwide within a decade. Companies and cities can use separate AI to help with central planning, but doing so on a state or country wide basis is asking to turn a small disaster into a gigantic one, just like the bananas.
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