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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?