Well this is a pleasant coincidence, in the last episode of my podcast (http://generalintellectunit.net) we discuss Red Plenty, and at one point we talk about the notion of Amazon being a planned economy very much in line with what the Soviet Cyberneticians wanted to build.

Oh, and Red Plenty is a great read, highly recommended.

Article: "public central economic planning is bad. turns out free markets have (privatized) central planning too. this is also bad."

What article doesn't say: "perhaps centralized planning comes from centralized (top-down) power structures like authoritarianism or cronyism and not necessarily the particular stated goals of various economic systems"

It never dawned on me about what those bracelets are for before this article. Screw yelling at employees over wasted movements. But if you want training data on how a super dexterous intelligent robot might handle packages I imagine you could get all you need that way.