Analogous to why the thought that some massive gradient-descent based algorithm is going to be the best kind of AI we might ever invent 




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Interesting distortions include: reason (eg planning), urgent temporal forcing functions (climate change), low liquidity regimes and “art” pricing, ‘economics of pricelessness’, bureaucracy (= human GOFAI), smart contracts, HFT, exotic securitized instruments...
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Problem with all these distortion ideas is that they are almost always easier to hack than use as intended. Cf the Lebowski theoremhttps://mobile.twitter.com/Plinz/status/985249543582355458 …
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Still, out of every 100 ideas to do better than today’s market, if 99 are easier to hack than use, 1 is a genuine advance within or outside the ‘market’ paradigm. So I like the idea of an eternal arms race between markets and imaginative attempts to distort them.
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You’ll always end up with one of 3 things: A new kind of criminal (99%) A new kind of market (0.9%) Something smarter than a market (0.1%)
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Dumb view: both markets and distortions are eternal patterns. Free-market fundamentalist view: markets evolve, distortions don’t Reactionary view (both left and right): markets are static but my new kind of distortion will deliver utopia Ze Truth: Arms race. Both evolve.
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We *invented* cities and countries, which are smarter than any markets we've invented
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Well, it’d be disastrous as well as depressing (and incorrect) to claim progress was over in *any* area. One can’t predict improvements that haven’t been conceived of yet. And culture is hugely broader than markets. This interaction itself is an example of cashless cooperation.
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I think the point is to defense one’ s freedom in the unstoppable process of harmonization of our brain and the world.
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I don’t think there is a non-distorted platonic market. Therefore the practical question is what kinds of distortions are going to give us the results we want. Semi related - one of the things old towns in England always brag about is the date the monarch granted them a market
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