alt Hacker NewsFraud detection is a Red Queen's race. If the amount of resources that goes into fraud detection and fraud commission grows by 10×, 100×, 1000×, the resulting increase in human capacities and improvement in human welfare will be nil. It may be technically challenging but it isn't technology.
Operations research is technology, but Uber isn't Gurobi, which is a real tech company like Intel, however questionable their ethics may be.
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> Operations research is technology, but Uber isn't Gurobi, [...]
Intel isn't ASML, either. They merely use their products. So what?
Presumably Gurobi doesn't write their own compilers or fab their own chips. It's turtles all the way down.
> Fraud detection is a Red Queen's race. If the amount of resources that goes into fraud detection and fraud commission grows by 10×, 100×, 1000×, the resulting increase in human capacities and improvement in human welfare will be nil. It may be technically challenging but it isn't technology.
By that logic no military anywhere uses any technology? Nor is there any technology in Formula 1 cars?
> It may be technically challenging but it isn't technology.
This feels like a distinction without a difference based on whether kragen thinks something is hardcore enough to count?