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Given their mathematical and statistical skills, somebody will soon start hiring rats as financial consultants. Do you really think this is the simpler explana
by stewbrew 15y ago
Given their mathematical and statistical skills, somebody will soon start hiring rats as financial consultants.
Do you really think this is the simpler explanation?
- lusr 15y agoI'm not sure if you are aware of this or not: www.artmarcovici.com/rat-traders Also, I believe it's implicit in parent's post that evolution would produce more rats whose behaviour increases their likelihood of survival. The rats don't need to understand how their behaviour ensures their survival, or that it can be modelled with game theory, etc.
- stewbrew 15y agoI am well aware that rats don't have to "understand" these processes. There is a shift in perspective underlying this argument though that doesn't help when discussing whether a rat is capable of recognizing another rat's distress (i.e., empathy) or how it perceives the situation from a subjective point of view.