Comment and report by Marco Milioni
It sounds like a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future… or the incarnation of an inhuman entity with diabolical traits? (M.M.)
Alexandre Laumonier is an expert in high frequency trading and artificial intelligence. He is the author of 6|5, a book that describes the history and protagonists of a story that seems to be told in a novel by Philip Dick. And which instead is terribly concrete, real, especially given the results of the crisis 2008. And Sniper tells it, a financial algorithm that can determine the successes and failures of entire companies in a few nanoseconds
The financial market crisis told by those who invented it. Who is not a broker and not even an unscrupulous capitalist. In fact, he's not even a man: it's just an algorithm. It's the idea he had Alexandre Laumonier, expert in high frequency trading and artificial intelligence. His blog Sniper in Mahwah it is among the reference sites in studies on current economic flows. It may be for this reason that Leumonier wrote 6|5, the Revolt of the machines, just translated into Italian by Linda Valle for the series Not of the publishing house Nero.
While on the one hand films and novels have accustomed us to the romantic figure of the broker, the unscrupulous agent in suit and tie protagonist of classics such as Wall Street, on the other hand the reality is different: the bags were automated, and the exchanges take place in a dimension more similar to a film than science fiction. In short, the crowded audiences where transactions took place amidst shouts and in real time are a legacy of the past. Because the true protagonists of today's finance have names like Sonar, Razor, Scouts, Tex, Night Vision, Pathfinder, Ninja. They neither wear tailored suits nor express themselves with gestures and shouts. And – in fact – they are not even human: I am algorithms. Created at the beginning of the information age, financial algorithms have now reached such power and speed that humans themselves are no longer able to understand them. In just a few nanoseconds an algorithm can determine the successes and failures of entire companies, projecting our economies into a sphere halfway between hallucination and nightmare.
6|5 describes the story and protagonists of a story that seems to be told in a novel by Philip Dick and which is actually terrible concrete, real, especially given the results of the crisis 2008. A bit of a financial thriller, a bit of anthropological wisdom, a bit of an adventure novel, reading Laumonier's book is dismaying from the first page, when we meet the protagonist character of the saga. To talk, Indeed, it's directly him: an algorithm named Sniper. The only one capable of penetrating the absurd reality into which the fate of the world economy has fallen.
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