Yes that's like saying a hammer is good at hammering. Well doh. Handling a "system wide economy" isn't just about managing a built machine, it's about managing what resources should be devoted to what activity and actors, and what that means is that this AI has the best predicting capabilities about what people (in their fragmented individualistic liberties) might want to devote their time and resources on (which would mean the AI is able to predict future discoveries, for instance), or / and that this AI has manipulated the entire culture and market to more or less focus on the things it already has by itself established as important.
The first hypothesis is what is taken for granted, the second is what the three stooges are hinting at, how "sleazy" the whole market process might be and what focused trends it might be manipulating an entire economy into. Thus my question. Efficient at doing exactly what. And who measures this efficiency? By what criteria? What works in one scale is an absolute disaster in another (the Turkey example comes to mind*). What makes for efficient in Sol might be regarded as suicidal by the GTVA.
* The turkey example is the following. Consider a turkey modelling the world. Ever since it is born, it is fed and its weight rises linearly and predictably. It's an amazing life and if the turkey wants to model its future, it knows where it's going to: up! The future is bright. Until thanksgiving day, that is, a day that will come completely by surprise and negate all previous models the turkey had to begin with.
