Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Thanks to comrade Polinkazh for organizing this and to Paul Cockshott for agreeing to give this talk.

Q&A timestamps:
00:31:40 Energy & infrastructure requirements for automating socialism in a large country
00:34:08 How to transition to socialism, does it need to be global?
00:39:20 Role of AI in future socialist planning
00:39:50 Human nature and socialism
00:43:20 How to implement direct electronic democracy. Can it be done in poor countries?
00:46:20 Why Universal Basic Income is bad
00:48:55 Why have socialist countries not used computerized planning?
00:53:40 OGAS (soviet idea for computerized planning)
00:55:10 Why should there be no qualitative difference between types of work in transition to communism?
00:59:00 How would an AI-planned economy judge the value of something like art?
01:01:30 Was the Kosygin reform inevitable? Was a better reform possible?
01:04:00 How should a modern socialist society allocate resources to the arts?
01:06:23 Anti-virus & computer security for computerized planning
01:08:29 Advice for computer students
01:09:47 Dealing with small businesses in transitioning to socialism & communism
01:11:34 Project Cybersyn (computerized economic planning in Allende's Chile)

Polinkazh
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Paul Cockshott
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