> I'm not going to say Communism failed because they didn't have machine learning, but I have a feeling that a more equitable and humane economy is possible if

> I'm not going to say Communism failed because they didn't have machine learning, but I have a feeling that a more equitable and humane economy is possible if all the variables in the equation are tuned right. You might enjoy the book Red Plenty, which talks about a group of mathematicians who wanted to optimize the soviet economy with linear optimization, but were ultimately stymied by internal corruption and Brezhnevism.