>>11452637I mean, I suspect that now, with the awesome powers of machine learning, online data gathering, online polling and online feedback, machines already can do economy at least a little better than a bunch of semi-random people running around pursuing unbounded self-intrest, armed with shitty heuristics and limited information, often acting against each other, themselves, their workers, their clients, or the economy as a whole.
Obviously we can't really hope for optimal solutions any time soon, but the ones we have now are so beyond suboptimal that even a very approximate program has a shot at being better.
(I am aware of many, many problems in actually implementing those algortithms though - from ensuring security and transparency of the program to handling the transition without a civil war. Having them would be a great thing regardless.)
