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Re:The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to sho... by njarboe on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @05:28PM (#15503316)
Any organization that has come close to "the ability to allocate the entire society's resources toward the common good" have created societies of great suffering and desperation so far. Maybe some super-intelligent computer system could do better?
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Re:The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to sho... by emodendroket on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:08PM (#15503671)
That's just a more efficient way to propagate the preferences of whoever gets to control the computer system.
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Re:The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to sho... by njarboe on Thursday October 19, 2017 @09:11PM (#15512873)
The computer would just be set to maximize the "common good", of course.
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Re:The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to sho... by emodendroket on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:30PM (#15513162)
As defined by whom?
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Re:The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to sho... by njarboe on Friday October 20, 2017 @01:03PM (#15517345)
That is the hard part, isn't it? The previous statements were a bit tongue-in-cheek, but also serious.
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