Johnothy_Cumquat

Johnothy_Cumquat t1_j1uuzyb wrote

Yeah sure let's turn it off in places where there's no ski slopes or rollercoasters just in case a mountain or theme park sneaks up on someone and prank calls the police. In fact let's block the number altogether so that no one makes a false call manually because those outnumber the genuine calls as well.

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Johnothy_Cumquat t1_j1u4vkr wrote

As an apple hater, this isn't something I'd criticise them for. Given the nature of the problem, false positives are bad but false negatives could be much worse. They have to be very careful when lowering the false positive rate that they don't raise the false negative rate. It's a very difficult line to walk. This is probably why no one else has come out with a similar feature (that I know of).

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