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When it comes to suicide prevention, I'd prefer having a few false positives than any false negatives.
Stopping people from dying is good.
That's not the issue where I criticised the false positive rate though, if you read my comment carefully. I hope I made it clearer with my edit.
people only said suicide detection was a good use of AI, not crime surveillance. and nobody's pretending stopping a suicide attempt treats the underlying issues either, and that's still better than not stopping it
Oh no someone might ask the victim of a false positive if they’re okay. The horror.
I guess you never have been targeted by unfounded police action. I hope you never will. It is fucking scary and traumatising.
American police is in its own category when it comes to cruelty in “police action”.
Don’t generalise it to other countries where becoming a police officer isn’t a 3 week online course.
I am not talking american police. I'm talking about experience with german police. You know, where you have to go to university for three years.
The training doesn't matter when several armed officers are applying forceful measures against you, you have no idea why, are panicing and your panic reaction is read as resisting police officers. Because that is standard procedure.