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Re: Ruling on Robonauts Balance

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The GDC's fallacy is in the application of the "reasonably astute observer" standard.
I don't understand what you mean. How is that a fallacy?

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In that respect, the knee-jerk application of the "reasonably astute observer" standard to so many different situations leaves a lot of big ambiguities.
How many different situations this year had the "reasonably astute observer" applied to them? Considering grab/grasp/grapple to be one, what were the others?

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FIRST often uses common words, but attaches special meaning to them. I think the Q&A questions about definitions were perfectly reasonable attempts to discover whether this was the case here.
I agree -- and I think the application of the "reasonably astute observer" litmus test clearly articulated that these common words did not have special meaning attached to them.

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As a mentor I tell my kids to err on the side of caution; if you think you might be breaking a rule, stop.
What the Robonauts did was make sure that a ruling against them wouldn't cripple their robot or their game plan if it didn't pan out -- which is exactly the type of risk-taking I would encourage my team to consider.
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