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Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune by inflatableDodo on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:34AM (#19849767)
What if it good at trading but can be unlucky?
Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune by bumby on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:49AM (#19850595)
Then I'd say the probabilistic nature of the model was not represented correctly by the seller.

Saying the algorithm makes 95% winning trades may not mean much if those remaining 5% of trades cause you to lose most of your value.

Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune by inflatableDodo on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @06:58PM (#19854223)
Protip, do not try this argument in Vegas.
Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune by bumby on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @08:54AM (#19858353)
Good point, but at least the probabilities of casino games are generally known and available AFAIK. People just tend to not care or have a confidence bias.
Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune by Loughla on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:39AM (#19850516)
If it's a robot, designed, programmed appropriately, and trained using the correct data to digest and understand later data, can it be unlucky?
Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune by inflatableDodo on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:42AM (#19850541)
John Maynard Keynes' remark that 'the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent', springs immediately to mind.
Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:17PM (#19850874)
Yes, unlucky just means that random/arbitrary decisions or events didn't "favour" you.