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I understand where you are coming from, but I think using the impact of the printing press to help predict the future of careers and AI is flawed. I think AI i

I understand where you are coming from, but I think using the impact of the printing press to help predict the future of careers and AI is flawed. I think AI is hard to compare against the past. A printing press replaced some jobs, but AI could replace way more jobs. Maybe it is like the printing press, but without typesetters.

swatcoder 3y ago
That's fine, but once one assumes the impact of this technology is wholly without precedent then they're left speculating about a future informed only by their own imagination. They'll always be able to re-affirm their own preconceptions (fears) because its the "just so" fantasy future of their own making. I don't see the point of coming to HN to trade those invented stories, as people here traditionally push to stay within the engineer's realm of how real things work, how they fit into the history of innovation, and what people might practically build with those things based on how they work. There are countless speculative fiction communities better suited to idle "yeah, but what if the sky was purple tomorrow?" discussions.