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If the false positive rate is not 100%, their next try is likely to succeed. Unless, as I mentioned, the contraption just breaks entirely, which is why I'd be
by chuckadams 3y ago
If the false positive rate is not 100%, their next try is likely to succeed. Unless, as I mentioned, the contraption just breaks entirely, which is why I'd be reluctant to have one of them in the first place.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> If the false positive rate is not 100%, their next try is likely to succeed Assuming they’re randomly distributed. If it’s 20% of cats getting rejected 50% of the time, that could be a problem.
- basil-rash 3y agoWe have no evidence that the failures are randomly distributed. What about when the failure mode is such that any time there’s not a massive blizzard outside, it works great. But when there is… icecat.
- chuckadams 3y agoSounds like you and I are actually in agreement here. It's not regularly-distributed but still occasional glitches I'd be worried about, it's the modes of total failure. Or as I like to put it: "gadgets break".