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Trent McConaghy & Steve Omohundro: Welcome New Players | Gaming the Future Book Club Chapter 9

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Central Problem of Economics Is to Explain Plan Coordination

The papers were published in 1988. The orientation of the paper is very much that these systems, these computational systems could be highly decentralized. So a lot of what the papers were about was enabling general purpose distributed computation among mutually suspicious entities.

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