AdamHede · HackerTrans

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Anecdotally, a notorious real estate developer named Blackstone where I lived got into a lot of heat, and afterwards rebranded to a local-language version of "DearCity". Now everyone seems to have forgotten their ruthless practices. To be fair, they went from a hilarious villain-like name to an almost cartoonishly cute one. But jokes on the public, because it works. They're largely off the hook in the publics eye now

AdamHede

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I am a part of a small but passionate group in Denmark, who advocates for giving everyone an account in the national bank at birth.

This account would be able to attach a featureless debit card (using our national standard payment system "DanKort"), and have the same interest rate as the national Bank (so for now, slightly negative).

Employees of the national bank is already able to get accounts like this. So there is precedence.

This is obviously not a particular attractive not sophisticated "product", but it is awfully hard to hurt yourself with, and will have all the functionality that allows you to function in a modern society.

Make banking a choice, and force the banks to make sufficiently attractive products to convince me to participate willingly.

AdamHede

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

A less synical conclusion would be that the longterm viability of a AI-centric company like Google benefits a lot of reasonable development in the early stages. If Google can avoid ethical hiccups it might provoke less regulation and provoke it later.

All else equal, being a reasonable and ethical company IS good business. Problems arise with ethics and business collide.

AdamHede

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

This is pretty important. The way the guys does this is very close to how you could also fool a human by hanging up real stop signs in the wrong places, and "stupidity" people would start to respect them.

The only difference here is that a mere 500 ms flash elicites a response, where a human wouldn't notice. on balance, a 500 ms response time does seem like a feature more than a bug compared to a human.

AdamHede

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I especially buy into your third concern.

Where I live, if the introduction of a UBI was followed by a drastic reduction (or complete elimination) of the means-tested system we know today, hunger would potentially become a problem for people blowing their money early in the month (or getting robbed?).

This tells me the utopian ideas of replacing the entire complex system with a simple UBI isn't feasible. You'll end up in dreadful ethical choices and moral hazard. This is indeed already happening, but the bureaucracy of it makes abuse less attractive.

AdamHede

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Maybe off-topic, but the article says they used a modified machine learning algorithm to nap bat calls to activities and from that developed a translator.

With the improvements to machine translation without parallelism data and voices-to-voice translation, how stupid is the idea that we might someday be able to take enough bat calls and human speech, and create a true translation system? obviously assumes the bats got something vaguely resembling a language we can translate from.

AdamHede

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I've starten writing a series of articles on getting started with data science form an organisational perspective, in my own native language (Danish).

AdamHede

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I don't think we need to declare "One truth", in order to remove the worst layer of misinformation. It's a false dichotomy.

What is the effectivness of (homemade) masks? Disbuted, so here information should be free Should you inject disinfectives into you bloodstream to cure Covid-19? No. This is misinformation, is easily identified.

If there is doubt, it should be allowed. There will obviously always be a grey area, but for the time being, a lot of good can be done, without any harm.

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