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Your comment about "efficiency" reminded me of Pareto Efficiency, which Google's AI incorrectly summarises as: > a situation where resources are allocated effi
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
Your comment about "efficiency" reminded me of Pareto Efficiency, which Google's AI incorrectly summarises as:
> a situation where resources are allocated efficiently and no further improvements can be made to society's well-being.
Of course the unstated rule that the AI left out is that this is the best you can do if you're not allowed to redistribute to the poor from the wealthy. Apparently that is by definition "inefficient".
Vilfredo Pareto of course is credited by some as a precursor to Fascism, acknowledged as an inspiration to Mussolini turning to Facsism, and somone who publicly welcomed Mussolini's takeover as step towards a "minimal state". But some people get really annoyed if you say he's a fascist.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Vilfredo Pareto of course is credited by some as a precursor to Fascism This is ad hominem. That isn't just a criticism of the comment, but pointing out that it's literally illogical. Heisenberg and von Braun worked for and sympathised with the Naxis. That doesn't make quantum mechanics and rocketry fascist.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoYou seem to be confusing "worked for a Fascist regime on a technical topic" and "helped inspired the creation of Fascism with his work in political economy". I would definitely want to read an alternative history where the Nazis built their entire ethos on quantum mechanics and rocketry, but that's not the reality we live in. We live in the one were someone who was anti-democratic because he thought the workers and the speculators would use it to take power from the aristocrats and the business owners inspired Facsism.