alt Hacker News> 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?
> 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?
No, as I explained, it's based on the resulting increase in human capacities and improvement in human welfare. Technology is a collaborative, progressive endeavor in which we advance a skill (techne), generation by generation, through discourse (logos).
Fraud detection can be (and is) extremely hardcore, but it isn't progressive in that way. It's largely tradecraft. Consequently its relationship to novelty and technical risk is fundamentally different.