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Wall St. Computers Read and Trade on the News (nytimes.com)
6 points by aaw 5665 days ago
3 comments

Jesus. An almost completely uninformed article.
It's a little like a communist central planners dream come true... Have a giant computer make all the decisions in the economy faster than a human could.
Why, this sounds like a brilliant idea, immune from failure. A recipe for stability if ever I've seen one.