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1. mgaldys4 · 1790086411 · focus · HN ↗

   Even the Millennium Prize Problems have, in a way, become benchmarks for model companies to prove themselves. The smartest individuals among humans are becoming replaceable. Intelligence has become a product you can quantify and buy with electricity. That feels awful.

   1. gjsman-1000 · 1790086760 · focus · HN ↗

      > Intelligence has become a product you can quantify and buy with electricity.

      There used to be days when women would make blankets, when men would make chairs, when children would make brooms...

      But PROGRESS I tell you!

      1. mgaldys4 · 1790087598 · focus · HN ↗

         Put it bluntly: the weavers who could be replaced by the spinning jenny were clearly doing repetitive labor. People writing code and maintaining project pipelines a few years ago relied heavily on experience, but in a sense that was also "repetitive labor." Replacing repetitive labor and freeing up productivity is of course progress.

         But reform always has its victims. Like the textile workers who starved in the streets centuries ago, and me, kicked to death in the street by AI today...

         1. IAmBroom · 1790102807 · focus · HN ↗

            Preach it, brother!

            Even old Ned Ludd won't buy my buggy whips, best in the land they may be.

         2. suopspaces · 1790129493 · focus · HN ↗

            Ants and bees are doing repetitive labor. Let's automate it and call it progress. Robot ants and robobees, thinking thoughts beyond your wildest AI dreams!

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