whyte_mackay

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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
A case of "do as I say and not as I do". Besides Eric Schmidt is powerful and rich enough to stop people from talking. Not exactly a level playing field there. Maybe Eric should not have a private Instagram account which follows y
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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
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 itself out. Let sel
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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
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 here a visualizati
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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
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 loan, etc.). The classi
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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
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 whether its
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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
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 that it's just
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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
> 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 turned millio
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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
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
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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
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 are kicking themselv
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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
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
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by whyte_mackay 8y ago
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 loo