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Top Traders Unplugged

IL41: They’re Not Just Reading You... They’re Rewriting You ft. Sandra Matz

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8670 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What if knowing you isn’t the end goal... but shaping you is? In this episode, Kevin Coldiron speaks with Columbia professor Sandra Matz about how algorithms trained on our clicks, searches, and faces don’t just predict our behavior - they influence it. They unpack how personalization narrows possibility, why convenience can come at the cost of resilience, and what happens when machines learn to mirror us better than we mirror each other. From the false promise of data consent to the quiet collapse of complexity, this is a conversation about power, psychology, and the systems quietly remaking the human experience.

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Episode TimeStamps:

02:13 - Introduction to Sandra Matz

08:22 - How data is a window into our psychology

12:13 - What is the "right" benchmark?

14:12 - How algorithms learn to understand who you are

19:11 - Do algorithms care about your feelings?

22:16 - The "basic bitch" effect

25:10 - Computers can learn your personality from a picture of your...

Transcript

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0:00.0

If that's the only thing that kids interact with, they're going to lose the ability to

0:11.5

now deal with a kid in the playground that's pushing them over and is not going to have

0:15.5

the argument in a very nice and kind way.

0:18.2

So, and we've gone through this, right?

0:20.0

We've experienced the messy world

0:21.7

and, like, the arguments, the conflict, the tension, the emotions. The next generation that interacts

0:26.2

with the chatbots a lot more than potentially with other human beings, they're just going to lose

0:31.1

this ability to argue with someone, get into a fight with someone, and still come out somewhat

0:36.6

okay on the other side.

0:40.2

Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders. Imagine learning from their

0:45.2

experiences, their successes, and their failures. Imagine no more. Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged,

0:52.9

the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world,

0:56.7

so you can take your manager, due diligence, or investment career to the next level.

1:01.3

Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind.

1:05.2

All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the past,

1:08.9

and past performance does not guarantee or even infer

1:11.9

anything about future performance. Also understand that there's a significant risk of financial

1:16.5

loss with all investment strategies, and you need to request and understand the specific

1:21.2

risks from the investment manager about their product before you make investment decisions.

1:26.1

Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager,

1:28.8

Niels Kostrup Larson. For me, the best part of my podcasting journey has been the opportunity

1:39.4

to speak to a huge range of extraordinary people from all around the world. In this series, I have invited one of them, namely Kevin Koldine, to host a series of in-depth

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