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kragentoday at 10:24 AM0 repliesview on HN

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.