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   "text": "A public database of nonproprietary hedge fund information might demystify the industry, but it would not address the central policy concern that opacity creates liquidity risk.",
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   "text": "Centralized platforms are locked into an arms race in which developers infer the rules of the ranking algorithm and exploit them, forcing the owner to keep the algorithm opaque and under constant revision.",
   "abstract": "The Google search engine algorithm is constantly be- ing improved, because website developers infer the rules of the algorithm and exploit its properties to raise their site",
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   "text": "The quantification and algorithmic optimization of human thought, feeling, and action can produce an optimization of humans that is too complex for humans to understand without the data driven algorithmic aids themselves.",
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   "text": "The decentralized architecture of blockchain itself complicates accountability by rendering oversight across distributed networks opaque, and that opacity jeopardizes adequate regulatory supervision of AI agents.",
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