"Since I did not want to make it too complicated, I only used the USD/EUR future to make the rats experts in this specific market segment, but other rats can be trained in other markets as well. I trained the rats for about 3 months, starting with 80 Sprague Dawley laboratory rats, 40 males and 40 females with the intention to cross the best of them to genetically create the best traders through select breeding."
It's clearly not a real experiment. The social commentary angle is interesting, although personally I'd tend to lean more toward elaborate hoax. The only thing I don't understand is why it has so many votes. It's not like it's at all insightful or illuminating when viewed as a thought experiment, so people must just be falling for it.
But on the other hand the author seems to be accomplished in the financial field. From his site:
"He quit school at 17 and started his first own business in the financial field, publishing analysis on the financial markets and managing funds, until he sold his business at the age of 23.
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He was also active in the field of software development, is the originator of many inventions, and holds international patents ranging from climbing equipment and bicycle gears to trading systems and electronic payment systems."
"Since I did not want to make it too complicated, I only used the USD/EUR future to make the rats experts in this specific market segment, but other rats can be trained in other markets as well. I trained the rats for about 3 months, starting with 80 Sprague Dawley laboratory rats, 40 males and 40 females with the intention to cross the best of them to genetically create the best traders through select breeding."
Sounds like a pigeonrank algorithm to me...