Joseph

Hello comrade This is also something that I have given a lot of thought to. I've had a lot of discussions with people and I want to provide the synthesis of all of them and get your response. (I'm a M...

@thardin exchane value is a use value?interesting. i can see how that would be the case, but i wonder if that doesn't cause issues in making a falsifiable theory. if exchange value is a use value itse...

Recently, ethereum switched from proof of work to proof of stake back in september of last year but it's price didn't collapse. previously, i've heard various marxists say that the value of cryptocurr...

@someloser woooaaah. i'm gonna have too check this out.

my degree is stats and economics (neoclassical economics at that) so I feel very lost when it comes to linear programming or other cybernetic adjacent topics that come up a lot on this forum. does any...

something else that i think is very important for any planning software would be re-aligning how we think of work. as David Graeber points out, an easy way to suss out what is productive or unproducti...

Posted by: @casperadmin @joe Posted by: @joe but we have issues. just because we need, say, 400 hammers, does not mean the factories making hammers can make them. what if there isn't enough labor ...

Posted by: @casperadmin I think that in terms of fundamental principles you'd want to develop the accounting system. There are essentially two fundamental parts of such a program that you'll need to ...

something i fear a lot is a piece of planning software that doesn't understand things. computers are fast, not smart. imagine a simple approach of an IO table with every commodity in it. we could (usi...

@muknimugne I've actually played that mod for openttd quite a bit (i combine it with an industry expansion mod and LARP as a soviet planner lol). There are challenges to planning on a national scale ...

@muknimugne no one is born knowing how to play openttd or how lightbulbs work. ignorance is not unchangeable. but that's a difference discussion.

@thardin I think we should definitely explore them. I was actually entirely unaware of them until you posted them.Is there a most popular one or a most widely used one? I watched an introductory vide...

@thardin there are a lot of alternatives but sadly unless it's one of the big ones there will be major issues.in much of the english speaking world and particularly in the US, the actual functioning o...

@casperadmin i may have mispoke. i don't intend for there to be a simulation but rather a fully fledged piece of planning software that is as easy to use as those toy examples. i want it to be an actu...

Hello everyone, I think it is important that the computer-assisted planning community develop a piece of planning software which is as easy to use as microsoft excel or one of those simple economy si...