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#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality

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Are You More Concerned About Computerized Trading Systems or Self Replicating Systems?

The less human there is in the loop, the more concerned you are about these kinds of systems because there's unintended consequences. We're at the dawn of the cybernetic era and the end of the era of just pure software. I think that it will be a different experience for different people. But unlike a lot of people who are who share my level of concern, I think the collapse will not be quite so dramatic as some of them think.

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