今晚听了前几周的一期Econ Talk。Alchemy也是嘉宾的书的标题。如果这个标题是想引起我们的兴趣去看为什么有人正经在说炼金术，那么对我而言是失败了，我下好了那一期之后就一直没听，直到今晚我没动我的播放列表就让它自己播放了。听了以后才发现里面有不少有趣的主意。但是我现在只记得一个地方。
本来说市场比较聪明可以调节资源。但是我们现在很多市场太机械化了，没有多样性就无法发挥市场的作用。我们现在很多优化工具就把人类的选择限制住了。
Are markets partly intelligent because human decision-making is messy, and markets can then aggregate preferences from a whole bunch of people who’ve come up with problems from a different angle? When you actually make choice uniform by dint of forcing everybody to go through the same set of questions in the same order, do you actually make markets stupider–because the distortions of the question-asking process become more and more widespread?
我听的时候是有不少想法的。但是坐下来写的时候都不记得了。而且现在又很晚了。