They were just making fun of Jon Ronson. I think their arguments hold up just enough to make Jon's request to kill the bot sound a little absurd. That seems to

They were just making fun of Jon Ronson. I think their arguments hold up just enough to make Jon's request to kill the bot sound a little absurd. That seems to be their only objective in the video. I thought the bit about trading algorithms and how it relates to what they're doing was a little over the top. The analogy to photography made by the guy on the left at the end of the video was genius. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum