I think game-theoretically it is best that the self-driving car always prioritizes its passengers. If it has to quickly hack a competitor's car to avoid a dangerous head-on collision, so be it: That market will sort…
Adding fairness to your models usually incurs a cost which can be measured. You have to choose between max profit or equal opportunity, you can't have both (do you run over the investors or over the minorities?). See…
I hear this often (that trolley problem is not relevant), but then I discovered that a lot of realistic ML fairness problems can be restated as a trolley problem. You have a classifier for credit assignment (giving a…
Yes. Cryptocurrency will eventually have to bite the bullet and become legit: KYC/AML, deanonymizing bad actors, defunding terrorists, hitting ICO's with laws, exchanges who cooperate with the IRS. It is getting there…
Yup, that is a hairy decision to make if you advocate for privacy and anonymity, and against censorship: What to do with the bad actors who will make use of it? From the Tor FAQ: > Some advocates of anonymity explain…
> Its advocates don't understand finance, business, government, politics, computer science, math, sociology, monetary policy, macro or micro economics, or human psychology. Weird, I must work with a bunch of dunces who…
At least crypto is way more censorship resistant than oldschool money. That's why it is called "censorship resistant" not "censorship proof". Claim stands. Make a Jewish joke and Paypal will not be your friend. Piss of…
Early adopters are silent, because they have nothing to prove and are too busy enjoying their wealth. Holders are positive, partly because they have financial motive to do so. Nocoiners are negative, partly because they…
The one difference is that Microsoft has always been transparent and open in their support for the US military. They even advertise it: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/gove... On the other hand,…
Interesting that I always used Andreessen's: Why software is eating the world? [1] as a temper to AI hype. You can replace "blockchain" with "distributed database" or "AI" with "software" and look at the result for if…
I think game-theoretically it is best that the self-driving car always prioritizes its passengers. If it has to quickly hack a competitor's car to avoid a dangerous head-on collision, so be it: That market will sort…
Adding fairness to your models usually incurs a cost which can be measured. You have to choose between max profit or equal opportunity, you can't have both (do you run over the investors or over the minorities?). See…
I hear this often (that trolley problem is not relevant), but then I discovered that a lot of realistic ML fairness problems can be restated as a trolley problem. You have a classifier for credit assignment (giving a…
Yes. Cryptocurrency will eventually have to bite the bullet and become legit: KYC/AML, deanonymizing bad actors, defunding terrorists, hitting ICO's with laws, exchanges who cooperate with the IRS. It is getting there…
Yup, that is a hairy decision to make if you advocate for privacy and anonymity, and against censorship: What to do with the bad actors who will make use of it? From the Tor FAQ: > Some advocates of anonymity explain…
> Its advocates don't understand finance, business, government, politics, computer science, math, sociology, monetary policy, macro or micro economics, or human psychology. Weird, I must work with a bunch of dunces who…
At least crypto is way more censorship resistant than oldschool money. That's why it is called "censorship resistant" not "censorship proof". Claim stands. Make a Jewish joke and Paypal will not be your friend. Piss of…
Early adopters are silent, because they have nothing to prove and are too busy enjoying their wealth. Holders are positive, partly because they have financial motive to do so. Nocoiners are negative, partly because they…
The one difference is that Microsoft has always been transparent and open in their support for the US military. They even advertise it: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/gove... On the other hand,…
Interesting that I always used Andreessen's: Why software is eating the world? [1] as a temper to AI hype. You can replace "blockchain" with "distributed database" or "AI" with "software" and look at the result for if…