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My reading of tfa is exactly that - the author is hoping that we'll have at least a generation or so to adapt, like horses did, but is concerned that it might b
by falcor84 11mo ago
My reading of tfa is exactly that - the author is hoping that we'll have at least a generation or so to adapt, like horses did, but is concerned that it might be significantly more rapid.
- OccamsMirror 11mo agoTo be clear though, the horses didn't adapt. Their populate was reduced by orders of a magnitude.
- sendes 11mo agoTrue, but the horses' population started (slightly) rising again when they went from economic tools to recreational tools for humans. What will happen to humans?
- Gigachad 11mo agoThe horse population was being boosted beyond normal numbers by human intervention. When humans stopped breeding them the numbers dropped. At least currently humans do not need AI to reproduce.
- baq 11mo agoThere were approximately zero horses in the wild, so it was all about what humans found useful. Pray it’s still humans who ask these kinds of questions about AI, not the other way around.
- goatlover 11mo agoDid the population of work/service dogs decline? Horses were already a form of automation over human labor.
- defrost 11mo agoBullocks. That's what Sandy over the road (born 1932, died last year), used to hitch up every morning at 4am, when he was ten, to sled a tank of water back to the farm from the local spring.
- burroisolator 11mo ago"You're absolutely right!" Thanks for pointing it out. I was expecting that kind of perspective when the author brought up horses, but found the conclusion to be odd. Turns out it was just my reading of it.