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Re: Ruling on Robonauts Balance

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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall View Post
That's where the analogy to ordinary engineering falls apart: there's no meaningful way to compensate for unclear specifications, so FIRST has a higher duty to get them right in the first place.
I agree with the former, and to some extent the latter. However, I believe that FIRST satisfied their duty in this regard with the 'reasonably astute observer' metric.

I maintain that it is unreasonable to expect first to define common English words used in the manual, unless there is true confusion as to what a phrase means.
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