[ExI] The End of the Future

[Stefano Vaj]

On 4 October 2011 23:58, Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The problem here is presenting a real world solution -- actual markets - against idealized alternatives.

This may well be argued, and is ultimately an empirical issue (see
again the "planned" economies of remarkable complexity who are today
dealt through computer simulations). Exactly the same goes with AI,
and the quality of power of the features which can be emulated today
vs the performances of biological brains.

An entirely different issue is to believe that markets or brains or
ecosystems cannot be competitively emulated by definition, out of some
ineffable quality thereof that would allow them to perform
calculations that no other cybernetic system could approach.

This is what sounds to me as a religious position.

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Stefano Vaj