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alatkins · 2021-09-03 19:42:19

Not to mention the potential severe consequences of the inevitable false positives, given the target subject matter.

cwillu | karma 4548 | avg karma 3.14 · | 2024-06-21 00:50:00

False positives are a problem if the response is itself potentially dangerous.

Zuider | karma 1497 | avg karma 2.52 · | 2016-07-30 19:34:10

It would certainly run the risk of false positives.

commandlinefan | karma 18097 | avg karma 3.52 · | 2021-11-10 14:08:20

And the can easily generate false positives! The worst of both worlds.

rscho | karma 3166 | avg karma 2.53 · | 2019-11-13 23:48:31+00:00

Given the potential liabilty consequences, this will invariably lead to a lot of false positive. There is a high chance that this ends up increasing costs.

andy_ppp | karma 10079 | avg karma 2.53 · | 2019-05-04 15:27:27+00:00

The potential for false positives here seems astronomical...

scrollaway | karma 28520 | avg karma 4.25 · | 2018-09-18 22:09:33+00:00

False positives are far more problematic than false negatives...

jll29 | karma 3719 | avg karma 3.39 · | 2022-06-02 18:38:51

Technology like this will sometimes work and many times not, and the false positives and true negatives will cause a lot of harm on the way.

pessimizer | karma 33733 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2023-08-28 12:43:37

False positives can be debilitating or fatal.

cholmon | karma 359 | avg karma 3.42 · | 2013-07-18 18:58:15+00:00

It'd be tricky to avoid false positives

buboard | karma 6145 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2020-03-26 11:15:59+00:00

plus in the current context, false negatives are much more dangerous than false positives

nightski | karma 6955 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2022-06-28 05:57:51

Your comment focuses on false negatives as if that is the only downfall, but I can't help to imagine false positives happen quite a bit.

jroseattle | karma 2669 | avg karma 3.48 · | 2013-06-10 10:21:31

Makes me think of the ramifications of false positives.

makomk | karma 18695 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2013-12-19 18:11:35+00:00

You're assuming that they consider the false positives to be disastrous (and that they consider them to be false positives in the first place). That's not necessarily a safe assumption.

heavenlyblue | karma 2264 | avg karma 0.77 · | 2018-04-28 17:00:06+00:00

The more false positives they have, the more false negatives they're going to have and that's where it becomes an issue.

dekhn | karma 28741 | avg karma 2.63 · | 2023-01-01 12:07:15

you'd be up to your ears in false positives, which can often be worse. screening is hard.

vinceguidry | karma 12286 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2015-09-28 19:39:01+00:00

Avoiding false positives is much more important than eliminating all the false negatives. Ugly, but true.

drdaeman | karma 7095 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2014-07-05 13:54:16+00:00

Well, a good side of it - the more false positives they have, the worse for them.

2rsf | karma 1044 | avg karma 1.01 · | 2021-05-05 13:16:57+00:00

and also leads to many false positives that in turn leads to treatments with many side effects or even dangers

saagarjha | karma 56017 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2023-12-27 14:36:02

This would have a very high false positive rate.