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extrememacaroni ◴[18 Jan 21 21:19 UTC] No.25826762[source]▶

This reminds me of an idea I had days ago of using an AI to tell poisonous mushrooms from edible ones apart, from photos.

Then I realized I don't want to be responsible for anyone's death.

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syntaxing ◴[18 Jan 21 21:27 UTC] No.25826840[source]▶

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What if you limited the range from I don’t know if it’s poisonous to X% likely poisonous vs is/is not poisonous?

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1. eropple ◴[18 Jan 21 21:31 UTC] No.25826887[source]▶

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People empirically do not understand probability in a useful way. Folks will, in aggregate, read that as "X% poisonous", not "X% chance to be kill you."

"Oh, that's only 25%, it'll be fiiine."

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I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea