Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The Technocrats - a protofascist Italian movement that once captured the imagination ...

The Technocrats - a protofascist Italian movement that once captured the imagination of Musk's great-grandfather, and now are frequently quoted and alluded to by the likes of Mark Andreessen - were addicted to the quantitative fallacy that infects economics and other disciplines. That's the idea that every social process can be expressed as a mathematical model, which can then be optimized.

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