From fbaed54b62edc7f15c068f8e63e2f734491829f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JC Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:40:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] fascinating --- fascinating.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 fascinating.txt diff --git a/fascinating.txt b/fascinating.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba45e6c --- /dev/null +++ b/fascinating.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +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. \ No newline at end of file -- 2.20.1