The World’s Largest Hedge Fund Is Building an Algorithmic Model From its Employees’ Brains.
Bridgewater wants day-to-day management—hiring, firing, decision-making—to be guided by software that doles out instructions....
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Building an Algorithmic Model From its Employees’ Brains
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I read this story in another publication a few weeks ago, i think the theory it's very interesting but the human realities of an algorithm making employee judgements and managements decisions is a pretty Orwellian. Can't help but think a scoring based system from a computer would lack any sympathy:
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