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1. dzink · 1789752442 · focus · HN ↗

   You are a photographer from the olden age. Taking a photo back then took forever. You are standing on a hill trying to get the perfect picture of a sunset. You measure and sort and calculate angles and light. A tourist stands next to you with an high-speed iphone auto-settings camera. They spin around and get thousands of photos from different angles while you are thinking and measuring your one shot. That’s what AI does. It gives you many shots at the same problem. The thinking guy with the one approach will likely lose a photo competition to one of the accidentally better shots of the person who tried a lot more. Make and filter now may be a better approach than overthink and try only once.

   1. srean · 1789754417 · focus · HN ↗

      Maybe so, but for the good shots by the thinking guy, I suspect he would derive longer term emotional gratification from how well they came out. Effort and investment adds to the experience.

      Making things easy is good as long as it is not too easy, then it's Spotify muzak.

      1. anon84873628 · 1789760614 · focus · HN ↗

         The real question is who can sell their photos and for how much profit. Even muzak has its market of satisfied customers.

         Of course "manual" programming can always be a hobby that provides emotional gratification, but that's not what dominates the economy.

         1. srean · 1789825991 · focus · HN ↗

            > The real question is who can sell their photos and for how much profit

            Is that so ?

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