High speed trading does take on a life of its own and runs at a speed too fast for people to follow. As I said, though, I want to exclude human-produced artifacts. In addition, it's not clear there would be high speed trading if there weren't human traders they are trying to front-run.
Agree, biology does sneak into weather phenomena as well. What about my revised question. Can we think of anything that is non-biological, non-human, and not a biological or human artifact that would qualify as an agent based system? On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:48 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > *“*I'd rule out high speed trading since it's done with computers and > works only because it interacts with people trading.” > > > > Increasingly there are volatility hazards that arise because machines are > talking to machines in a multiparty fashion via the trading system and this > happens at a frequency beyond what people can fathom. It takes on a life > of its own. > > > > Planetary weather patterns seem like a decent example, but biology sneaks > into that one too. > > > > Marcus > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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