[FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

[Russ Abbott]

High speed trading does take on a life of its own and runs at a speed too
fast for people to follow. As I said, though, I want to exclude
human-produced artifacts. In addition, it's not clear there would be high
speed trading if there weren't human traders they are trying to front-run.

Agree, biology does sneak into weather phenomena as well.

What about my revised question. Can we think of anything that is
non-biological, non-human, and not a biological or human artifact that
would qualify as an agent based system?

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:48 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> *“*I'd rule out high speed trading since it's done with computers and
> works only because it interacts with people trading.”
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> Increasingly there are volatility hazards that arise because machines are
> talking to machines in a multiparty fashion via the trading system and this
> happens at a frequency beyond what people can fathom.    It takes on a life
> of its own.
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> Planetary weather patterns seem like a decent example, but biology sneaks
> into that one too.
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> Marcus
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