Comment by thorum

My point was more “humans are used to tools that don’t always work and can be used in creative ways” than “no human invention has ever been rigid and reliable”.

People on HN regularly claim that LLMs are useless if they aren’t 100% accurate all the time. I don’t think this is true. We work around that kind of thing every day.

With your examples:

- Before computers, fraud and human error was common in the banking system. We designed a system that was resilient against this and mostly worked, most of the time, well enough for most purposes even though it was built on an imperfect foundation.

- Highly precise clocks are a recent invention. For regular people 200 years ago, one person’s clock would often be 5-10 minutes off from someone else’s. People managed to get things done anyway.

I’ll grant you that Roman aqueducts, seasons and the sun are much more reliable than computers (as are all the laws of nature).