Claims / C-CYSVYDP79K
Conjecture
Central planning fails at a specific step, and Part I names it precisely: aggregation destroys the thing being aggregated. Local information by its nature cannot be conveyed as statistical aggregates, because forming an aggregate requires paving over minor differences in the data, and those minor differences are where much of the value of local knowledge lives. So the act of making local knowledge transmissible to a planner is the act of removing what made it worth having. This is a sharper objection than the usual complaint about planners lacking data: the data cannot be moved without being damaged.
Evidence 1 passage
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cannot be conveyed in the form of statistical aggregates. In order to form statistical aggregates – simplifications that can be communicated to central planners \- minor differences in the data are paved over, however, these minor differences create a lot of the value of local knowledge. In contrast
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