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Comment by 1718627440

1 day ago

It just means that a false positive rate is as dangerous as a false negative rate. Just issuing a warning doesn't come for free when you are designing a security system.

This is very well illustrated in the fable Boy who cried false positive.

  • that sounds like a character from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

    • Any lessons in HPMOR are also going to be found in traditional works.

      I was interested to find a discussion of the trolley problem in a book of out-of-copyright Norwegian-region folk tales (in English translation) that Amazon recommended.