A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code
It was briefly discussed about 7 days ago.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22045696" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22045696</a><p>I posted there, same self-addressed question, that I cannot figure out the answer to...<p>It seems that intensives to cheat, and environment where &#x27;means justify the ways&#x27; --  are overpowering.<p>For people who are naturally gifted, successful at young age -- why cheat?<p>Was this historically, always like this?<p>These insensitive to cheat, to gain unfair advantage, to treat  life opportunities without any &#x27;honor code&#x27;  just seem to be so pervasive now, it seems.<p>There is a cheating scandal every other week involving most prestigious institutions, competitions,  and so on.<p>These incentives to cheat,  basically destroy from inside our commercial model, academics, judicial system, political system and probably military too.<p>This also creates a new type of powerful currency, and therefore the &#x27;billionaires&#x27; in that currency have infinite power  -- and that currency is &#x27;dirt on somebody&#x27;.<p>Dirt on somebody who cheated before -- forever makes the cheaters into tools of injustice.<p>---<p>Public shaming is reactive, there we need something  more  proactive at various points.  There are needs to be incentives for work verification, as an example.<p>I also think it is unfortunate but at least civil&#x2F;commercial law in  many countries is pretty much riddled with &#x27;more expensive lawyers  produce better results&#x27;. And it skews society into basically thinking &#x27;anything goes, really. means justify the ways, and cheating something one can get away with&#x27;