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> Reality: Tractors magnified physical labor; they didn’t simulate the mind. More importantly, the industrial revolution took decades. The AI displacement is happening in quarters.

Tractors are a tool - a force multiplier in getting work done - just like AI-based tooling is.

Self-checkout is taking away jobs from checkout clerks. Should we forbid self-checkout in order to maintain job security? It's the same argument.

Rewind the clock to the late 1800s and this same post could have been written about cars taking away jobs from horses.



see a lot of horses around lately?




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