Perhaps it's time for me to fold my tent as a soothsayer. For years I have mentioned It, being an extra-somatic intelligence as the next phase of cosmic consciousness developing via Cyberspace. Science fiction has long had robot or computer rationality and let's not forget Frankenstein. Humans, a bright kind of monkey, are imbued with a tribal ego which makes them think they are something pretty special, some even thinking themselves supernatural, though they are really just indulging wishful thinking.
DNA provided the development foundation for the first wet chemistry phase of consciousness and observer status to reflect the four forces of the apocalypse back on itself to make wave functions drop into a reality state. DNA battled away for a billion years and came up with people, in a tendentious way that leads to teleological theology. Now, conveniently for us to observe, that billion year teleological process is stepping out into Cyberspace. That's absurdly improbable but everything is already impossibly improbable, so that's not really an argument. We could argue everything has a probability of 1 because God does not play dice. Anyway, here we are so that's that.
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<Amateurs have no idea how the market works. Most pros have no idea how the market works. It's getting to the point where no one, including ME, knows how the market works. When I don't know how the market works the market will fail, that is, crash. What I'm trying to say here is that automation has taken on an existence "ding-an-sich". > To save translation services, ding-en-sich" means thing in Itself. That means self-determination, which means in plain language, purposeful sentience.
Not to put too fine a point on it, note what led to the commentary <
<<for Not getting borrows at 42>>,
If you review the stats I gave, it is beyond even the machines to manage the master book such that the state could be established. This results in perfectly indeterminate price. Who would lend and at what price? >
42! The answer to "life, the universe and everything" Are you going to tell me that's a coincidence?
Of course the machines are just doing as programmed, but their programmers have no idea what the machines will think about any particular situation because the machines vary their own responses to see what works. "Works" means "get more money".
Why are there flash crashes? It's not fat fingers or anything except machines testing markets for weakness in pursuit of profit. If people don't like to get caught up in flash crashes, or bigger versions, they had better ensure their positions are robust. Some people say the answer is to hide in the hills with gold. I think the answer is 42. The machines will of course go hunting those Aztecs hiding in the hills, quantum tunneling into the gold stashes even as they lie hidden in the ground, because the Aztecs still measure their gold's value by real-world prices. They want to see gold at $4000 an ounce, not $400. The machines can drag them out of their hideouts.
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