Reminds me of an AI that was programmed to play Tetris and survive for as long as possible. So the machine simply paused the game. Except in this case, it might decide the easiest way to end your suffering is to kill you, so slightly different stakes.
This is so amazing I'm wondering how on earth they got publishers on board with this. I guess technically they don't need their permission, but I see some hilariously oversized coffee mugs being thrown across board rooms in anger after reading this announcement.
Data scientist here! What you have discovered is what's known in data analytics as a semi-additive measure. Instead of summing the balance column, you would count it, and get a measure that showed how many transactions took place, but not a balance. Of course, there's no reason to simply count the one column, a row count would suffice and return the same.
Damn now that's the perfect description right there