The Complex Systems that Govern Our Lives w/ Tim Maughan
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Complexity of the World
I think what you describe is that Technology is really helping to make that possible in a way that it wasn't in the past. So we look at financial markets and like so many of these trades are done by algorithms And I spoke to team Wong who described how like the digital ad markets work in a very similar way to those financial markets which have been Modeled off of them. All of these trades that you know determine which ads that we see are done by algorithm in like milliseconds or nanoseconds or whatever while the page loads. Even beyond that like what you described on that trip you did with unknown fields how the people who are driving the boats don't necessarily always know what's even
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