[ExI] The End of the Future

[Dennis May]

I wrote:

> So those involved in the market are expected not
> to react to the fact that central planners are making
> their economic decisions for them?
 
Stefano Vaj wrote:

> Entirely different issue.

> We were just discussing whether carbon is by 
> definition faster than silicon.

> It may, but it need not, be. My point however is 
> that you seem to have religious reasons to think 
> otherwise.
 
The subject originated as observations indicating
a decline in human intellectual productivity.
 
I noted that this decline can be directly tied to
the information bottlenecks and resulting 
inefficiencies of central planning.  A small
serial processing system inhibiting what is
inherently a large parallel neural process.
 
This information based view of the central
fallacy of central planning has been around
for a very long time.  Information theory
seems very important in relation to the subject
matter of this discussion site.  I think it is 
appropriate that the central fallacy be 
examined in this light.  
 
"Religious reasons" does not address the
question of information available to central 
planners versus everyone else and how
everyone else reacts to central planners -
living in information and processing 
poverty - making decisions for them.
 
Dennis May
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