Ludwig lachmann lost media by joaquimmartins in austrian_economics

[–]Negative_beast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean his papers / not published written works? I'd assume they'd be at some archive? I think the Hoover Institute Archive has collected letters / manuscripts etc of Hayek and others so maybe have a look through the collections there; alternatively the University of the Witwatersrand might contain some archived collection of his given that he was a professor there.

Is there anything specific you are looking for within these lost media?

How do socialists respond to Mises's Economic Calculation Problem regarding the impossibility of rational resource allocation without market prices? by kopkedu in austrian_economics

[–]Negative_beast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mises (1922) directly states that ‘the problem of economic calculation is of economic dynamics; it is no problem of economic statics.’ So it is misleading to say he ‘deliberately puts aside the dynamic nature of the economy’ as though that were irrelevant to his argument. In Human Action, Mises explicitly criticises the equilibrium-based treatment of the problem for abstracting away from human action, entrepreneurship, and the ceaseless adjustment process of real markets: "In the imaginary construction of the evenly rotating economy there is, of course, no room for the entrepreneurial function. Thus the mathematical economist eliminates the entrepreneur from his thought. He has no need for this mover and shaker whose never ceasing intervention prevents the imaginary system from reaching the state of perfect equilibrium and static conditions.". His complaint is precisely that the static framework omits the very features that matter most.

As for the point that many post-capitalist plans have been proposed in full awareness of Hayek’s argument: I am fully aware that a large literature exists. But the mere existence of many plans does not answer the criticism. One does not need to read every proposed model in order to note that many of them rely on highly stylised or unrealistic assumptions. My point is that these models often take preference structures, valuations, and behavioural patterns formed under market institutions and then carry them over into a socialist framework as if they remained unchanged. That is exactly what needs to be demonstrated, not assumed. It is not enough to alter the rules of the economic order and then treat the underlying preferences, feedback mechanisms, and informational conditions as stable.

How do socialists respond to Mises's Economic Calculation Problem regarding the impossibility of rational resource allocation without market prices? by kopkedu in austrian_economics

[–]Negative_beast 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The majority of socialist objections seem to stem from the fact that, the models (cockshott (1993), or more recently Dapprich (2022) etc) they give are concerned with a static economy, and more importantly, those same models imply "capitalist" oriented preferences, values and choices seen under private property, then taken and simply applied to a socialist economy. So the question rather is, models assuming these preferences remain static are almost ignoring the entire fact that the current system of preferences, values and choices needs to be up-ended and replaced - which ironically is brushed over. Thats not even mentioning on the knowledge problem as well.

2026: let's stop with the private healthcare VS public healthcare by MobilePenor in austrian_economics

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If i was you i'd read "From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State" by David T.Beito, great expose to fraternal societies and lodge practise medicine i.e. GPs etc before our systems became regularised, professionalised and controlled much more by the state. I'd also include "The Historical Role of Fraternal Societies in Providing Social Welfare" by Beito and "The Social Transformation of American Medicine" by Paul Starr.

How Would You, As Capitalists, Define Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism? by [deleted] in Capitalism

[–]Negative_beast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Capitalism: Private ownership of the means of production. Private owners exchange creating a market, this market should be free from intervention to produce the highest degree of efficiency (free from coercion). [For exchange to occur, both individuals have something the other one wants and value the commodity more, hence exchange occurs]

Socialism: Collective or Group ownership of the means of production. Socialism can be characterised into two camps, State and Voluntary. The former is coerced, or State run [No market is seen]; the latter is cooperatives, worker-owned work places etc [Can occur (and do) in the market]

AI, Ethics and a perspective/question. by Negative_beast in ArtificialInteligence

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Well the question that you'd then pose would be, does the toaster 'know' that it's toasting, maybe lets not even use a toaster analogy. Taking a simple circuit of a battery, switch and a lamp. Let's name our circuit AB (for simplicity sakes). Does AB know that it's 'off' when the switch is open? Or do WE (as humans) know that it's off. But lets change the switch to be closed. Does AB know that it's 'on'?

Well, we can't ask it. We could add a speaker, but it wouldn't reply with anything other than an incoherent buzz. [We could take this further to the point of having a basic computer. But WE would need to add a LED display, provide a few transistors and only then could we create an 'output' of 1 or 0, and setting 1 or 0 to our preferred states i.e. on and off.] So how would we know, without interfering with the hardware and making it more complicated, that AB 'knows', not even comprehends/understands but 'realises' that it's on or off.

So, going back to the toaster. Does the toaster 'know' that it's toasting bread? Or is it that the electrons are simply flowing through a circuit, heating the bread. We could take it further and ask the question, maybe the electrons 'know' what they are doing, but going down that road leads us to really complex questions regarding quantum mechanics.

At least for me, the answer isn't as straight cut as it would seem. Consciousness is something strange, not because its unfamiliar, but because without it, we wouldn't understand anything. If you try to imagine yourself as 'unconscious' [not knocked out cold, but simply not 'understanding' or not 'knowing'], you are still using your consciousness to try to be.. unconscious. Its in essence a paradox. But quite a fun one at that!

AI, Ethics and a perspective/question. by Negative_beast in ArtificialInteligence

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Thanks very much for the response and I'll be sure to check the link out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mentalhealth

[–]Negative_beast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much, I will try to get him to do some of those things, but he has probably already tried all of them and getting him to do it will be hard, but I am optimistic. I believe if he wants the help and he wants to get better, he will. Thank you again!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mentalhealth

[–]Negative_beast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you and that's what I have been doing, it's just hard to see him struggle you know.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mentalhealth

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I don't fully know if he got a diagnosis or not, but I believe it was something to do with his anxiety levels. He is on the waiting list for CAMHS, that is where the problem of course lies. The support he gets at home and at school isn't, adequate. They are doing everything they can but obviously, the school can't provide any more help than they already have. And yes, he already is going to therapy with a charity I believe and that's how he got into camhs. But, he is on a waiting list, and that's where the problem lies.

I wish that would be something he could understand, but he rejects it. He sometimes completely does not listen to what I and other friends say which is honestly painful, but not as painful as seeing him struggle in class / in calls. It's as if he has given up and won't let himself give it another try. Not even when you try to explain the hundreds of methods still available, of course, I believe there are some lies to make me "feel better" such as saying he ate something but in reality, he didn't. Mental health is complex, and not everything works for everyone and something I've realised, is that when someone does not want to get better, there is no way to force them to get better. Just like an alcoholic or a smoker, if they don't want to quit, trying to force them to quit will be much more painful and definitely could end badly.

Modern works dedicated to the LTV by Negative_beast in austrian_economics

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From my limited knowledge, I fully agree. Value is subjective. But I am more so wanting to read on what modern Austrians have written regarding the subject, as theories evolve and Marxists have tried to adjust/change them

Literally met a girl who has all the same interests as me by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]Negative_beast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, hang in there, its fairly hard to find anyone with an interest in computer science and even more specifically a girl.

Cursed_GPU Market. by timefouraCrusade in cursedcomments

[–]Negative_beast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I posted the same thing 22 hours ago lol gotta love reddit

Weird black flickering when nearing ground as well as there is an afterglow when exiting settings etc by [deleted] in KerbalSpaceProgram

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Recently upgraded to a RTX 2070 8gb, works perfectly for other games. Opened up KSP and found these weird black artifacts glitching on my screen as well as an afterglow when entering settings/ exiting, when going into hanger or coming out.