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A wonderful precedent. Now if only it could be applied to other professions, and lower-profile cases...

• JanSolo 10mo ago
  Agreed. All humans need to learn to fact-check their sources. Especially those in decision-making roles.
  • Ylpertnodi 10mo ago
    "Trust but verify', very often equals 'fuck it, I'll do it myself'.
• hamdingers 10mo ago
  I worry the precedent is backwards, the source of the error suffers no repercussions. In areas where we move away from humans doing work into humans checking the work of agents, we should be worried about an arrangement where the human is present only as an accountability sink for the mistakes of the agent.
  • mattmanser 10mo ago
    It's not clear what happened from this news report. His error in judgement may have been he hadn't investigated the problem sufficiently. Then falsely testified to the government. That's a big deal on its own. The officer involved might have been fired or reprimanded, we don't know from that article.