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Re: Show HN: Vom Decision Platform (Cursor for Decision Analyst)

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Any thoughts on the aspect of tool like this being, gosh, I don't know else to say it except evil? To some extent, you've sanitized the business of ruining people's lives. This is the meat grinder. YOU as its creator don't fear it because it's your pet basilisk. But make no mistake, your pet is a killer monster the only real purpose of which is to but a rubber stamp on every kind of bias while removing accountability…

I'll try to keep it productive though, since I imagine that businesses will continue to demand tools like this and it's foolish of me to think that someone won't make them. You asked how you could make it better. You need to think of yourself as having two sets of customers. One set is the decision-makers, and the other is the people being decided on. If you were to be successful it would be by bridging that gap betw…

Laws obviously vary by location but in the EU there is this: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...

Beyond that, it looks like this system gives you full audit logs and lets you backtest things which means you should be able to analyse the impact of a change and have a record of what decisions were made and how they were made.

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The section “Backed by leaders from Google, Microsoft, Meta..” is not clear. Do you have angel investors working at these companies, or what’s the relationship with your company?

We have Angel investors from high level positions at those companies.

Re: Show HN: Vom Decision Platform (Cursor for Decision Analyst)

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Any thoughts on the aspect of tool like this being, gosh, I don't know else to say it except evil? To some extent, you've sanitized the business of ruining people's lives. This is the meat grinder. YOU as its creator don't fear it because it's your pet basilisk. But make no mistake, your pet is a killer monster the only real purpose of which is to but a rubber stamp on every kind of bias while removing accountability…

The Vom platform allows business teams to build explainable transparent decision processes. It makes it easy to comply with regulations like the Fair Credit Reporting Act. It's actually a big improvement over black-box models or opaque spaghetti code, which are the status quo at many places.

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post #10

Any thoughts on the aspect of tool like this being, gosh, I don't know else to say it except evil? To some extent, you've sanitized the business of ruining people's lives. This is the meat grinder. YOU as its creator don't fear it because it's your pet basilisk. But make no mistake, your pet is a killer monster the only real purpose of which is to but a rubber stamp on every kind of bias while removing accountability…

You seem to be mixing up using ai to make decisions and using ai to make the decision tree in code to a specification. I think you should take a moment to try and understand the product before attacking so strongly.

Exactly.

Re: Show HN: Vom Decision Platform (Cursor for Decision Analyst)

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Any thoughts on the aspect of tool like this being, gosh, I don't know else to say it except evil? To some extent, you've sanitized the business of ruining people's lives. This is the meat grinder. YOU as its creator don't fear it because it's your pet basilisk. But make no mistake, your pet is a killer monster the only real purpose of which is to but a rubber stamp on every kind of bias while removing accountability…

I'll try to keep it productive though, since I imagine that businesses will continue to demand tools like this and it's foolish of me to think that someone won't make them. You asked how you could make it better. You need to think of yourself as having two sets of customers. One set is the decision-makers, and the other is the people being decided on. If you were to be successful it would be by bridging that gap betw…

Thanks for the feedback! Making decisions transparent is a big focus area for us. Not only for fairness, but also because companies can't improve what they don't understand.

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Any thoughts on the aspect of tool like this being, gosh, I don't know else to say it except evil? To some extent, you've sanitized the business of ruining people's lives. This is the meat grinder. YOU as its creator don't fear it because it's your pet basilisk. But make no mistake, your pet is a killer monster the only real purpose of which is to but a rubber stamp on every kind of bias while removing accountability…

I'll try to keep it productive though, since I imagine that businesses will continue to demand tools like this and it's foolish of me to think that someone won't make them. You asked how you could make it better. You need to think of yourself as having two sets of customers. One set is the decision-makers, and the other is the people being decided on. If you were to be successful it would be by bridging that gap betw…

Thanks for the feedback! Making decisions transparent is a big focus area for us. Not only for fairness, but also because companies can't improve what they don't understand.

Nevertheless, we are a platform. We make it easy for deciders to do the right thing, but they are ones making final decisions.

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#18

Any thoughts on the aspect of tool like this being, gosh, I don't know else to say it except evil? To some extent, you've sanitized the business of ruining people's lives. This is the meat grinder. YOU as its creator don't fear it because it's your pet basilisk. But make no mistake, your pet is a killer monster the only real purpose of which is to but a rubber stamp on every kind of bias while removing accountability…

> "We're sorry, the AI says you're not allowed to have credit anymore." genuine question: hasn't that been done already with machine learning? edit: your point is totally valid and I agree, but this type of cruelty is not new

There are regulations for example that say "the AI did it" is not a valid response to questions about why a decision was taken (e.g. the Equal Credit Opportunity Act in the US).

There are several best practices to comply with such regulations, and our platform makes it easy to apply them.

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