I hadn't really thought of Facebook or X as command economies and central planning before SN. But it's a very apt description, I think. Algos and moderators are anti-free market.

Scoresby

nono, the central planner of the internet 

Markets are great because they help people arrange things in ways they couldn't have otherwise fathomed. No one of us knows what the front page of SN should like at any given moment, but our hope is that if all the signals are costly, what will emerge is an "optimal" front page.

econ

Should you have to pay to mute on SN (and do other things too)?

nono, the central planner of the internet _knows_
> Markets are great because they help people arrange things in ways they couldn't have otherwise fathomed. No one of us knows what the front page of SN should like at any given moment, but our hope is that if all the signals are costly, what will emerge is an "optimal" front page.