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points by 1718627440 17 hours ago | 0 comments
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.
[–] karmakurtisaani 17 hours ago
This is very well illustrated in the fable Boy who cried false positive.
[–] mercer 14 hours ago
that sounds like a character from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
[–] thaumasiotes 8 hours ago
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.

[–] jryle70 6 hours ago
False positive? How did you know?