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by wordpad 301 days ago
Humans already make arbitrary content.

It's a question of scale.

Humans could always write things down, but only the printing press changed the world.

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> Humans could always write things down, but only the printing press changed the world.

No, humans couldn't always write things down (there was a whole lot of time that humanity existed and written language didn't), and writing things down changed the world quite a bit long before the printing press.