Comment by gietema on leogao's Shortform · 2024-08-13T21:24:36.149Z · LW · GW

This can be explained when thinking about what these accuracy levels mean: 99.99% accuracy is one error every 10K trials. 99.999% accuracy is one error every 100K trials. So the 99.999% system is 10x better! When errors are costly and you’re operating at scale, this is a huge difference.