AI Researchers Compare Finance to Functional Programming
Leo Gao and Geoffrey Irving exchange views on nested financial instruments resembling code.
AI safety researcher Leo Gao tweeted that finance professionals act like functional programmers because complex assets represent future assets that themselves represent future government money, calling it higher-order function behavior. Geoffrey Irving replied that finance accounts for the bulk of functional programming weighted by market cap. The brief exchange highlights how AI experts interpret layered financial systems through programming abstractions, with no additional claims or updates confirmed in the packet.
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AI Researchers Compare Finance to Functional Programming
Leo Gao and Geoffrey Irving exchange views on nested financial instruments resembling code.
AI safety researcher Leo Gao tweeted that finance professionals act like functional programmers because complex assets represent future assets that themselves represent future government money, calling it higher-order function behavior. Geoffrey Irving replied that finance accounts for the bulk of functional programming weighted by market cap. The brief exchange highlights how AI experts interpret layered financial systems through programming abstractions, with no additional claims or updates confirmed in the packet.
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finance ppl are the functional programmers of the economy. what do you mean you convert an asset representing future money from the govt into an asset that represents receiving an asset in the future that represents future money from the govt. higher order function ass shit
@nabla_theta And indeed the bulk of functional programming itself, weighted by market cap. :)