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https://heininger.substack.com/p/escaping-the-bot-bonanza?r=16lm0

inputs change, they fire orders. Human beings show up upstream as data (earnings releases, macro prints, news headlines) and downstream as storytellers. The actual decision—buy this, sell that, now—lives inside code.

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Could you discuss why I hear no economist talk about algorithms, as they make comments that the markets are behaving bizarrely or irrational or still rising when examined from the perspective of the mess we're in. Atributing this to human behavior. I've written a number of essays on this (also a short story) some very detailed here's the link to a general one. And a quote from the essay.

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