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Re:Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game' by TeMPOraL on Monday August 03, 2015 @04:09AM (#9994374)
Which is a problem with incentives around investing, not with normal, "well-adjusted" people. It should be pretty clear now that the market strives to remove all human values not relevant to increasing abstract profit numbers. We are literally losing our humanity over this. And the best thing? If we continue, it may well end up that an automated economy will become a closed loop, running by itself without the need for human input or existence.

Some people fear we code up a Paperclip Maximizer, but it could be that we'll accidentally build one in pursuit of profits.

Re:Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game' by TheOtherHobbes on Monday August 03, 2015 @08:47AM (#9995323)
Hasn't this already happened with HFTs?

Some terrifyingly large proportion of the money markets runs on pure code already - which is terrifying because we're not even a democracy now, but some kind of bizarre automated profit-seeking cybernetic metacreature.

Re:Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game' by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:49AM (#9995733)
Capitalism systematically makes humans into cogs in a machine. Now it replaces the cogs it considers defective (flesh) with ones which cannot fail it (silicon).
Re:Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game' by eru on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @02:45AM (#10002004)
What's a democracy in your book? Who's `we', and were they ever a democracy?