Don't Trust Machines

(Technical) Reasons for Optimism in the Age of the Machines

We’re going to depart a bit from markets today and talk about machines. The ways they fail and the scope that opens for positive-sum interactions between humans and robots. In short, we’re going to try to provide a bit a (technical) antidote to all the doomerism going around.

Funnily enough, when I was growing up, people used to call me a pessimist. F…