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The same sort of agency problems that exist in centrally planned economies also exist in large public companies.

Their datacenter is centrally located, so long times are much faster for me than east or west coast.

If you plan to start a company that centrally hosts content (which you said below the user's would do..

In the case of the latter massive amounts of money if they aren't centrally managing updates.

There's a freaking enormous downside for large corporations, and that's their inability to centrally manage vendor relationships with large chains.

In a centrally planned system, your utility function needs to properly identify what tradeoffs people would make if they had the choice.

Well, you're right that it requires centralization, but at least the amount of data you need to retrieve centrally is that much smaller.

A single centrally managed monopoly seems to be exactly what everybody wants.

Separately (in my opinion) — or centrally (in tptacek's)— the hate subreddits from prior incidents like /r/FatPeopleHate deletion and GamerGate kick into high gear.

Getting stuck in local minima happens in centrally planned systems too.

Lets say you have a big company that only has a specific set of public IPs and you centrally manage browser updates, add-ons, and extensions.

Large companies are basically centrally controlled economies, and we know how that turns out..

You assume they had/have the leverage to "force" manufacturers to let them centrally update their handsets which isn't very fair.

There must be some "cool companies" that centrally plan and are successful?

Then there's the fact that no one can know what any given person wants to buy at a given time, and therefore central planning is doomed to failure because you can't centrally plan "the right" prices for everything, and then you'll end up vastly misallocating resources, and there will be widespread destitution ala Soviet Union.

"That ones work might be re-purposed for nefarious purposes is not an argument against attempting to avoid industries where nefarious use is the purpose of the work." I think there's a centrally misguided notion in this thread that AI for autonomous weapons is somehow more dangerous than AI.