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- Title
The Conquest of Fortune: On the Machiavellian Character of Algorithmic Judgment.
- Authors
Doneson, Daniel
- Abstract
The article focuses on conquest of fortune on the Machiavellian Character of algorithmic judgment and development of mathematical theory of games of chance. It mentions natural extension of the concept of probability to include mathematical theories, did the rigorous and numerical theory of anything probabilistic emerge and results of machine learning and algorithmic judgment. It also mentions origin of mathematical probability theory with health insurance, flood insurance and life insurance. It argues liberation is thus first a liberation from prejudice and superstition and religious question has always been at the core of modernity.
- Subjects
MACHIAVELLIANISM (Psychology); ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION theory; MACHINE learning; FLOOD insurance; HEALTH insurance; LIBERTY
- Publication
Social Research, 2019, Vol 86, Issue 4, p871
- ISSN
0037-783X
- Publication type
Article