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The most buzzwordy thing I heard from a blockchain guy was from Vinay Gupta, of Ethereum fame. He said quantum computers can solve the economic calculation problem, so we can get Quantum/Blockchain/AI socialist central planning.

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Ironically, quantum computers could break the underlying premises of the elliptic curve cryptography [1] that is used in Ethereum, thereby breaking Ethereum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#Qu...

Unironically, we can already solve the calculation problem with standard computing techniques right now.

As long as we all go on the Stigler Diet

To match the performance of a market economy, wouldn't that require modelling agents that themselves have access to the same computing techniques you have?

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