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by goat_whisperer 833 days ago
People who try to draw historical analogies to AI replacing humans say things like:

"cars replaced horse drawn carriages. But we managed to adapt to that, the carriage drivers got new jobs."

My dudes. We are the HORSES being replaced in this scenario.

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I don't get your pessimism, after we are replaced we can all work at the glue factory :)
How about tractors replaced humans plowing fields? Or literally any other example of automation...