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+I recently listened to an interview with Tomas Haerdin on planning which
+is an economic production system that focuses on creation of physical
+items. It was most obviously a strategy employed by the USSR, but in the
+interview he also goes over how it was used by the Allende government in
+Chile under Project Cybersyn.
+
+Project Cybersyn introduced  the interesting concept of the discussion,
+cybernetic planning. It was different than the Soviet Gosplan system in
+that it was a "bottom-up" planned economy, with aspirations of
+democratic worker control.
+
+Haerdin's describes cybernetic planning as a systems theory with
+feedback loops. From a technical level, it models both a distributed
+system of production, as well as solvers for systems of equations.
+
+After being out of school for some time the the linear programming went
+over my head. But he estimates that 23 billion production methods
+(equations) can be solved on modern hardware. These models, as well as
+representing production firms, could then be represented as a graph. 
+
+Representing firms in the system, software could enable workers to
+propose a new product for production. The proposal would be modeled on
+the cost of inputs and outputs, and then the planning system would be
+able to direct resources from existing goals to newly proposed and
+approved products.
+
+This discussion also reminds me of "The People's Republic of Walmart",
+and the solving of such large systems of equations piqued my interest.
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