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Dan Davies
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October 30, 1970
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“the economy would tend not to the frictionless ideal, but to be made up of islands of central planning linked by bridges of price signals.”
― Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World
― Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World
“If the economy is an information-processing system, does that mean that every corporation is an artificial intelligence? If people are worried about out-of-control AI taking over the world and destroying everything, shouldn’t we have been trying to do something about them at least seventy years ago – and probably more like two hundred?”
― The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
― The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
“One of the reasons why fraud controls were not properly built into the Medicare system, for example, was exactly this issue—nobody wants to say or imply that they don’t trust doctors.”
― Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World
― Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World
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