Re:Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
by TheOtherHobbes on Monday August 03, 2015 @08:47AM
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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
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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).
Some people fear we code up a Paperclip Maximizer, but it could be that we'll accidentally build one in pursuit of profits.