Lack of knowledge about the economy and lack of ability to compute on the knowledge you already have are distinct kinds of deviation from omniscience; Nash equilibrium hardness concerns the latter (computation), whereas Hayek's knowledge problem and the economics of information concern the former, and economists have integrated information problems more successfully than computational ones.
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“to even talk about whether a problem is in p or as an np or whatever we assume that an input is given to you ... we are exclusively concerned with the difficulty of calculating something about that information”
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