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by jarin 5605 days ago
What this is basically saying is that the software these companies create doesn't understand the complexities and chaos of human interaction and thought.

Pretty sure people have been working on this problem for a while, and it won't be solved anytime soon.

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Agreed. How can you possibly expect a computer to make a non-optimal decision, such as humans regularly do (e.g., the lottery, short versus long-term output, etc.)? Until we can model these decisions, there will be areas that tech falls flat.