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by log_n 552 days ago
Yeah the problem is that the average rat lives for less than four years, which doesn't let them see multiple market cycles. We must selectively breed or biologically engineer longer lived rats or else we will be curve fitting for a single market regime.
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Yeah, all we need is a bunch of smarter rats!8-(
It's a famous Henry Ford quote actually. "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said smarter rats."