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To: koan who wrote (760336)	12/31/2013 9:22:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1576944

You seem to be making a general statement rather then responding to the specific question that I was addressing. As to the specific - Its not just a matter of processing information (which computers can do very well) but of generating it in the first place. Analyzing quality of health care directly (rather then using proxies for quality which may or may not be good substitutes for direct measurement) would involve getting a lot more information in the first place. And the information is also a matter of judgement. Computers are useful in the overall effort but they can't provide judgement or process information they don't have. More generally - Your statement is even more off. You can't solve for an economy, or for the best political choices with computers. And it wouldn't matter if you have a million times as many computers and each one was a million times as fast. We don't even have the equations the computer would calculate. If we did have them they would be too complex for any modern computer or collections of computers to solve. And many of the issues aren't even calculable, amounting to subjective preferences and questions of philosophy.

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