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David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

Dwarkesh Podcast

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How to Invent a Paper Clip and Make a Fortune

If iv wrote a deep learning programme, i traded over financial history. I asked it to make me a trillion dollars on the stock market. Do you thinkthat this would be impossible? Ye will. If you want to be powerful, you might do better in managing a weapon. So you can invent a paper clip. To use an example, but its often used in this context. You ow invento if paper clips hadn't been invented, you can inventions a paper clip and make a fortune. And similarly, if you invent a dumb arbitrage machine which seeks out complicated trades that no-one else is trying to do,. That's what made you a fortune. It was your idea for

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