Equation 6 · Part 1 · How Do We Actually Know a Safety Measure Worked?
Symbol N
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N is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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…things, and none of the three would have found what the others did. It would distinguish, in the same sentence, a production side-effect metric like a refusal-rate change from a red-team failure count like “no bypass in N hours” from a field-incident count, because these are different kinds of evidence and the rule-of-three bound only meaningfully applies to the second, and only once independent attempt counts, not hours, are disclosed. And it would treat a clean result as provisional rather than final, on a…
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