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dlmanning

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    Comment #48667884

    > Personally I strongly reject the idea that labor displacement is unethical. Oh, well if you STRONGLY reject it I guess that's it. > It will be a serious problem to deal with, but…

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    Comment #48667551

    Apologies. I misread the comment to which you replied and gave them unwarranted credit for not making the same tired point about calculators.

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    Comment #48667525

    Oh okay. So where's the point where AI starts to encourage the development of a new useful skill set among people early in their careers?

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    Comment #48667512

    Do you... think heart surgery has become LESS dependent on surgical skill in the last 100 years? Cardiovascular surgeons spend MORE time in training now than they did 100 years ago…

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    Comment #48667499

    Not all of us think encouraging people to outsource their own thinking to proprietary models is actually "progress."

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    Comment #48667485

    Understanding math absolutely makes a calculator more useful to you though.

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    Comment #48667457

    It's the point where you expend effort to learn a useful skill.

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    Comment #48667323

    The "privileged caste" being people who actually expended the effort to learn things for themselves?