Kevin Marks (q.v.) introduced me to Kellan’s Paradox of False Positives in Social Media, which predates the themes I explored in Billion Grains of Rice by 5+ years:

Imagine you’ve got a near perfect model for detecting spammers on Twitter. Say [that] Joe is (presumably hyperbolically) claiming 99% accuracy for his model. And for the moment we’ll imagine he is right. Even at 99% accuracy, that means this algorithm is going to be incorrectly flagging roughly 2 million tweets per day as spam that are actually perfectly legitimate.

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https://laughingmeme.org//2011/07/23/cost-of-false-positives/

Via: https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmarks.com/post/3lefwdts3n225