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    5 months ago

    This makes me think of the glooper that Hubert made in Terry Pratchett’s “making money”. I think this is where he came up with the idea.

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      5 months ago

      nvm looked it up.

      https://wiki.lspace.org/Glooper

      Apparently in 1949 in Brittain they made an economics computer called “Phillips Economics Computer”, but I’m sure that the scientists building the Phillips Economics computer might have taken notes from the soviets.