Managing crime is a problem where both false positives and false negatives are prominent and severe subproblems. When someone seeks to outrage you over one type of error, consider whether their implied solution would make the other type of error worse.
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I don’t entirely disagree, but I would say that there’s a point of diminishing returns where minor gains to one imply major losses on the other. Prior to that point though, I think knowledgeable people can identify some fairly frictionless improvements to the system on both ends.
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Yes, that's characteristic of optimization tradeoffs. "When someone seeks to outrage you" they probably aren't a knowledgeable person in the sense you mean, though.
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By 'superficially satisfying definitions of good' I meant stuff like prison abolition and mass murdering bad people and other policies favored by children.
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Most problems can't be solved and most policies are useless if you're lucky.
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