For anyone else seeing this comment, I recommend the following blog post: http://bactra.org/weblog/918.html http://bactra.org/weblog/918.html "Attention conse

For anyone else seeing this comment, I recommend the following blog post: http://bactra.org/weblog/918.html http://bactra.org/weblog/918.html "Attention conservation notice: Over 7800 words about optimal planning for a socialist economy and its intersection with computational complexity theory. This is about as relevant to the world around us as debating whether a devotee of the Olympian gods should approve of transgenic organisms. (Or: centaurs, yes or no?) Contains mathematical symbols but no actual math, and uses Red Plenty mostly as a launching point for a tangent." I made it about a quarter of the way through before I had to return my copy to the library - not because it wasn't well written, but my attention span has been shot by the internet and smart phones.