{"id":12329,"date":"2015-06-30T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/it-gets-bet-t-er-there-are-whole-spe-cies-of\/"},"modified":"2015-06-30T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:06:05","slug":"it-gets-bet-t-er-there-are-whole-spe-cies-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/it-gets-bet-t-er-there-are-whole-spe-cies-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It gets bet\u00adt\u00ader. There are whole spe\u00adcies of other bots that in\u00adfest the Amazon Mar\u00adketplace, pre\u00adtend\u00ading to have used co\u00adp\u00adies of books, fight\u00ading epic price wars no one ever sees. So with \u201cTur\u00ading Test\u201d we have a de\u00adlight\u00adful futuris\u00adtic ab\u00adsurd\u00adity: a com\u00adput\u00ader pro\u00adgram, pre\u00adtend\u00ading to be human, hawk\u00ading a book about com\u00adput\u00aders pre\u00adtend\u00ading to be human, while other com\u00adput\u00ader pro\u00adgrams pre\u00adtend to have used co\u00adp\u00adies of it. A book that was never ac\u00adtual\u00adly writt\u00aden, much less prin\u00adted and read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carlos.bueno.org\/2012\/02\/bots-seized-control.html\">How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>author of Lauren Ipsum, Carlos Bueno, talks about how his Print On Demand book has been engaged in weird pricing speculation on Amazon.com. It is a kind of slow motion arbitrage by autonomous bots. This may be related to high speed trading on the stock exchange, only slowed down enough to be perceivable by humans who still can&rsquo;t make sense of it. Hat tip to Jos\u00e9 Zagal for the link, and to Lindsay Grace whose exhibition catalog, Blank Arcade 2014, has now also been so engaged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It gets bet\u00adt\u00ader. There are whole spe\u00adcies of other bots that in\u00adfest the Amazon Mar\u00adketplace, pre\u00adtend\u00ading to have used co\u00adp\u00adies of books, fight\u00ading epic price wars no one ever sees. So with \u201cTur\u00ading Test\u201d we have a de\u00adlight\u00adful futuris\u00adtic ab\u00adsurd\u00adity: a com\u00adput\u00ader pro\u00adgram, pre\u00adtend\u00ading to be human, hawk\u00ading a book about com\u00adput\u00aders pre\u00adtend\u00ading to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3cR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}