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Is it true that every algorithm eventually fails over time?

I'd say... absolutely yes! 😄

Check out these screenshots from my virtual stock market simulation:

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So here’s the weird part 🤔—
I’ve built dozens of random increment trading games—some simple, some absurdly complex, with multiple layers of logic, random market events, and even AI bots making decisions based on simulated emotions. Sounds cool, right?

But no matter what I do…
When I let them run for millions of virtual years, they always end up doing the same bizarre thing:
🔻 They crash to 0.000 and never recover. Not even once. Not by a fluke, not by a miracle rebound. Just a cold, flatline zero.

At first I thought:

Maybe it’s a bug in my code.

Maybe the randomness isn’t random enough.

Maybe my reversal thresholds are too sensitive.

So I tweaked the math.
I rewired the logic.
I even gave the simulation divine intervention powers.
But nope — 0.000 again, like clockwork. 💀

And that’s when the questions hit me:

Is this some kind of entropy law at work?
Are my virtual markets reflecting the true thermodynamics of chaos?
Or did I just stumble upon the financial equivalent of heat death?

Like seriously…
Am I simulating markets, or am I uncovering a terrifying universal constant that everything—given infinite time—tends toward zero?

Maybe it’s not a bug.
Maybe it's a message.
Maybe, just maybe…
The Matrix wants me to stop playing God. 🧠💥📉

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