[ExI] The End of the Future

Dan dan_ust at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 4 22:12:42 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, October 4, 2011 4:32 PM Dennis May <dennislmay at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "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.

While I disagree with characterizing your approach with a "religious" one -- and would warn others here to avoid such language as it's merelt the equivalent in this forum of calling some one a jerk and doesn't clear up anything -- one problem is perhaps that Stefano is not familiar with the Mises-Hayek critique of central planning and of the various debates that have taken place on this over the last 90 years or so. (The debaters were not, to inform everyone else here, blissfully unaware of the computational approach. In fact, some in the pro-central planning side in the debate has offered this, time and again, as the solution: computational power will simply increase and the problem with go away.) Dennis, you mgiht be more familiar with Mises, Hayek, etc. and are not explaining all the intermediate steps. Remember, what appears obvious to one person might not only appear not obvious but even absolutely wrong.
 
Regards,
 
Dan




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