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   dart200 to Julian   
   Re: The Broccoli Problem, or Why AGI Can   
   05 Jan 26 21:02:32   
   
   From: user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   On 1/5/26 11:27 AM, Julian wrote:   
   > Why we're forever stuck with the messy, glorious business of being human   
   >   
   >   
   > The argument arrives with the regularity of a recurring dream: surely   
   > artificial general intelligence will finally crack the socialist   
   > calculation problem? With unlimited compute, perfect data collection,   
   > and inference speeds beyond human comprehension, can’t we at last   
   > aggregate all dispersed knowledge into a single optimising mind?   
   >   
   > The answer is no. Not because the technology isn’t good enough yet, but   
   > because the question misunderstands what knowledge is...   
   >   
   > Hayek’s Insight Wasn’t Computational   
   >   
   > In 1945, Friedrich Hayek published what the Federal Reserve has called   
   > “one of his most significant contributions to economic research” —   
   “The   
   > Use of Knowledge in Society.” The essay wasn’t about computing power. It   
   > was about ontology.   
   >   
   > Hayek’s central point cuts deeper than “planners lack sufficient   
   > processing capacity.” The knowledge problem isn’t a data engineering   
   > challenge. It’s about what counts as knowledge in the first place.   
   >   
   > He wrote:   
   >   
   > “The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is   
   > determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances   
   > of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated   
   > form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently   
   > contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.”   
   >   
   > Notice what’s happening here...   
   >   
   > https://mattkilcoyne.substack.com/p/the-broccoli-problem-or-why-agi-cannot   
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   >   
      
   if you want to AI solves everything answer AI will obviously take in and   
   account for whatever signals current market operators utilize and make   
   more fair decisions ...   
      
   i mean aren't we already using algos for logistical decisions in large   
   corps???   
      
   so what's the difference even???   
      
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