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by tugu77 539 days ago
Thats all fine, but I think you are missing the bigger picture. It's not about whether what we already got out of this is good. Of course it is. But this is about where it's going.

Until about 120 years ago, people were happy with horses and horse carriages. Such a great help! Travel long distances, pull weights, I never want to go back! But then the automobile was invented and within a few years little travel was done by horses anymore.

More recently, everybody had a landline phone at home. Such great tech! Talk to grandma hundreds of miles away! I never want to go back! Then suddenly the mobile phone and just shortly after the smart phone came along and now nobody has a landline anymore but everybody can record tiktoks anywhere anytime and share them with the world within seconds.

Now imagine "AI". Sure, we have some new tools right now. Sure we don't want to go back. But imagine the transformative effects that could come if the train didn't stop here. Question is just: will it?