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    It is not the case that Hayek's epistemic argument establishes that decentralized, locally-bounded decision-making aggregates information that no single fully-informed reasoner could process.

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    • 1.Decentralized decisions often produce externalities and coordination failures that harm overall outcomes versus informed central direction.
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    • 2.Modern information technology can aggregate and process distributed data at scales Hayek could not anticipate, undermining his argument.
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    • 3.Local decision-makers have incentives misaligned with collective welfare, so aggregating their choices need not serve common interests.
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    • 1.Local agents possess tacit knowledge about their contexts that cannot be codified or transmitted to central planners.
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    • 2.Price signals and market feedback enable distributed actors to coordinate without requiring comprehensive information sharing.
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    • 3.Centralized decision-making creates cognitive bottlenecks that limit processing capacity below what decentralized networks achieve.
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