Many wild mushrooms make delicious food, but some are highly toxic and can result in a fatal meal. Apply the "principle of asymmetric harm" to mushroom identification and recommend a strategy for mushroom identifiers
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:
A false positive identification of an edible mushroom as toxic has minimal costs, whereas the false negative identification of a toxic species as edible can be fatal. Mushroom identification should err in favor of rejecting 100% of toxic mushrooms even if this means falsely rejecting many edible mushrooms.
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