• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    They’re “hard issues” because we don’t have a centrally planned economy, we have to rely on the market to provide solutions.

    Through a combination of marshaling the forces of production to build a renewable infrastructure and strict fossil fuel rationing during the build-up phase I think we could get the crisis under control within 5 years.

    … I’ll admit that’s just vibes, though.

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      20 days ago

      They’re “hard issues” because we don’t have a centrally planned economy, we have to rely on the market to provide solutions

      As humans are very bad a predicting the future, centrally planned economies come with so many added problems that market based solutions are frequently more realistic.

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        20 days ago

        Every corporation is centrally planned.

        I recommend reading The People’s Republic of Walmart. Businesses have figured out central planning, there’s no reason it can’t be done for nations.

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            20 days ago

            Walmart isn’t a federation, it’s very centrally planned. It’s also larger than a lot of nations.

            The only thing missing is a military.

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              19 days ago

              Are you really this poorly educated in economics that you do not get that for profit businesses and nation states function under completely different realities?

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                19 days ago

                Last I checked, businesses and nations exist in the same reality and follow the same physical laws.

                Central planning works and you have been lied to by those same businesses that don’t want to be nationalized.

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            20 days ago

            They’re trying to strip the wiring from the walls. They’re not even running like a business, they’re running it like VC.

            Let’s not pretend they’re trying to centrally plan anything. The doggy department hates central planning. They just tell ChatGPT to come up with things to cut

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      20 days ago

      I get the sentiment and I wish it were true.

      Some of the issues stem from material and energy limitations regardless of human organisation structures. Fossil Fuels are stored sunlight over a long period of time that means that burning them has a high yield and that’s given us a very high EROI society (one where there’s an abundance of energy for purposes that aren’t basic functioning).

      I recommend reading The Collapse of Complex Societies by Tainter who discussing the energy limitations of society. Its before our understanding of energy limitations of technology and he’s by no means a leftist but it is still a good introductory text to it.

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        I’ve read Limits to Growth. I understand there are physical limits and that we can’t just grow our way through this crisis. Industrial civilization can not continue as it is.

        But central planning would allow for us to transition to a lower energy society.

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          I agree but there’s a lot of detail about what activities a lower energy society precludes and my point is that energy intensive “AI” (mostly thinking about LLMs rather than targets applications of ML) probably aren’t part of it.

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            20 days ago

            Deepseek showed that these chatbots can be run much more cheaply than they have been and it isn’t really necessary to build giga warehouses of servers. It might be possible to run them on even tighter hardware specifications too.

            Of course, chatbots aren’t AI and the fact that they’re trying to use them as AI isn’t going to work out anyway lol