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by CatWChainsaw 1204 days ago
Steven Zapata has a really good video on Youtube about "the end of art". He offers this analogy:

If a factory worker at a car manufacturing plant was handed a screwdriver, and he claimed it was "replacing" him, we would know that he is incorrect; it is a tool designed to make him more productive. But the day they rolled out the robotic assembly lines, however, he was correct: those were designed to replace him. And they did. And now he lives in the Rust Belt with a degraded quality of life and few job prospects because he didn't just lern 2 code.

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Yeah, a tool = increased productivity => output = worker time x multiplier a robot = automation => output = machine time (without human) + worker time (part that cannot yet be automated)