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The entire premise of this paper is complete nonsense, and serves only to demonstrate the authors complete lack of understanding when it comes to the subject of markets.

"Trading is ultimately a partial information, sequential game with an unknown number of participants whose payoff functions (and utilities) are also unknown."

Markets in general are essentially an infinitely-armed bandit problem where everyone plays whether they know it or not, and resources are allocated over time in a manner not unlike evolution.



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