[worldsayshi]

I'm curious what positive externalities you're thinking about? Being able to make plans for the future?

[sneed-oil]

A male in a country that is about to enter a war could decide to leave to avoid conscription, depending on the odds

[pigeons]

Doesn't take a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows

[vovavili]

Again, as I said, "aggregating public and private information through market mechanisms".

[Miraste]

That's vague enough to be more or less meaningless, where specifically do you see positive externalities outweighing the numerous negative ones?

[vovavili]

If that strikes you as vague, I strongly recommend you to read at least an LLM summary of "The Use of Knowledge in Society".

[Aushin]

Just give an example, dude. Stop being abstract.