Computing
Socialist Economic Planning and Algorithms
A palestra abordará os debates sobre o cálculo socialista e os avanços que ocorreram devido a Kantorovich x von Mises. Então, serão observadas as limitações do método de planejamento de Kantorovich e como elas podem ser superadas usando técnicas que foram originalmente desenvolvidas para pesquisa de redes neurais. Ao final, serão apresentados dois pacotes de …
Socialist calculation: the computer engineering problem
Socialist calculation: the computer engineering problem. In the same year that Allin Cottrell and I published Towards a New Socialism(TNS), I also brought out a couple of computer science books. The two CS books might seem to have little to do with the book on socialism but they are linked by an intellectual history of …
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Input-output or Harmony planning
Date: May 14, 2019Author: Paul Cockshott In corresponding with readers it has become clear that in TNS we did not perhaps do a good enough job of explaining the relative roles of input-output techniques and the Harmony planning technique which we proposed. The input-output method is defined in terms of flows. If you look at …
Materialism and delayed choice quantum eraser experiments
Date: July 25, 2018Author: Paul Cockshott I have been producing a series of videos explaining materialism. Most of these have been accepted without controversy, but predictably enough, the last one, which was on quantum phenomena and materialism raised a number of critical comments. The gist of my argument had been that the dominant Copenhagen interpretation …
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Proposal for collaborative project to work on green 5 year plan
Paul Cockshott 28 Nov 19 In early November I was presenting a talk on planning algorithms to the Historical materialism conference in London. A major theme of the conference was historical materialism in the context of the climate crisis. One thing that struck me at the meeting was that people seem to be underestimating the …
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Big Data and Super-Computers: foundations of Cyber Communism
I shall be elaborating on the following theses: The inability of 20th century socialism to progress to communism led to the crisis of theUSSR. Communism requires a definite stage of development of technology. This stage was only reached at the very end of the 20th century. But this problem of technical adequacy can not be …
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Peer to Peer Manifesto
Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as theblueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, a new social, political and economic dynamic is emerging: peer to peer. What is peer to peer …