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Whether something is better than nothing depends on its error rate and the consequences of an error.
by thfuran 3y ago
Whether something is better than nothing depends on its error rate and the consequences of an error.
- lazide 3y agoAnd the awareness that nothing is perfect, including manual reconciliation.
- withinboredom 3y agoRight. Like now I'm wondering if I should edit my statement description in Stripe to be adversarial to AI reconcilers; just for giggles.
- snapcaster 3y agoFair, but also humans working manually don't have a 0% error rate
- bsder 3y agoI thought the whole point of double entry bookkeeping is to make sure that the error rate is, in fact, precisely 0% and verifiably so.
- lmz 3y agoYou can still reconcile the wrong things and have the books balance. e.g. you sell a subscription for $1. User A paid on the 1st, user B paid on the 3rd. You mistakenly reconcile user A's payment to user B's bill and vice versa. Your books still balance, but you better hope you didn't charge user A any late fees.
- benreesman 3y agoThe precision/recall behavior of LLMs tends to get glossed over. You’re quite right.