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Even if we accept his argument that it's too complex for humans and need computers to manage it, I'll point to Wall Street high-speed trading software that already runs the economy by this logic. It means we should seize Wall Street and direct those machines towards a different outcome.
Besides, we don't need super-intelligent AI, just computing resources. It's computationally feasible to turn the economy into a big sheet of equations that need balancing. If you squint it's a bunch of Linear Algebra. Like a chess AI, the question becomes how long do you give the computer to calculate a more fine-grained production balance. Finally, we can fudge all of this with buffers (storage tanks, grain silos, warehouses, etc) that can store these materials to absorb inaccuracies in the planning or simply to prepare when plans need changing, like a natural disaster. Paul Cockshott and Allin F. Cottrell's Toward a New Socialism details such a program.