One step closer to socialist planning!

[Hyacinth]

Earth project aims to 'simulate everything' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082)


An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or congestion on Milton Keynes' roads.

Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator (LES), the project aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies and the environmental forces that define the physical world.

So much for the technical limitations standing in the way of socialist planning. The material conditions necessary for the construction of communism seem to be in place in the advanced industrial world (and, arguably, have been in place for about two decades).

[ckaihatsu]

Earth project aims to 'simulate everything' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082)

So much for the technical limitations standing in the way of socialist planning. The material conditions necessary for the construction of communism seem to be in place in the advanced industrial world (and, arguably, have been in place for about two decades).


'Sim-Communism', huh...?

= )


Capitalism will develop the engine and simulated user interface to a collectivized communist society to the utmost perfect degree but just won't let it happen for real....

[FreeFocus]

That's pretty crazy stuff. Hopefully it can be used effectively.

[ckaihatsu]

"Many problems we have today - including social and economic instabilities, wars, disease spreading - are related to human behaviour, but there is apparently a serious lack of understanding regarding how society and the economy work," says Dr Helbing, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, who chairs the FuturICT project which aims to create the simulator.





"It's not that we don't know enough about a lot of the problems the world faces, from climate change to extreme poverty, it's that we don't take any action on the information we do have," [Pete Warden, founder of the OpenHeatMap project and a specialist on data analysis,] argues.


Hmmmmmm, I wonder which guy is right...(!)


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[Ocean Seal]

The sad truth is that we've been ready for socialism for a long time. We live in a post-scarcity world.
We produce 10X the necessary amount of food.
We can make a book available to 6.8 billion people for < $1.
We can develop technologies for sustainable energy.

We have the means of production for a better world, but we are simply in the wrong mode of production. :crying:

[piet11111]

It would be hilarious if every simulation they run using a capitalist mode of production has the sim world go to shit.

[ckaihatsu]

It would be hilarious if every simulation they run using a capitalist mode of production has the sim world go to shit.


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Unfortunately the parameters will probably be set in such a way as to prove Ayn Rand right...(!)


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[∞]

Should there some kind of intimacy in production? I mean we are developing technology that could help CPing. The part that has me worried is apparent adherence to structure and hierarchy visible in the capitalist system and openness to bureaucracy.