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semi-extrinsiclast Thursday at 5:38 PM1 replyview on HN

Then you are equally fucked as the AI will be, so no difference.

Case in point, I remember about ten years ago our washing machine started making noise from the drum bearing. Found a Youtube tutorial for bearing replacement on the exact same model, but 3 years older. Followed it just fine until it was time to split the drum. Then it turned out that in the newer units like mine, some rent-seeking MBA fuckers had decided more profits could be had if they plastic welded shut the entire drum assembly. Which was then a $300 replacement part for a $400 machine.

An AI doesn't help with this type of shit. It can't know the unknown.


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deepGemlast Thursday at 8:11 PM

But once it knows it’s pretty certain to become common knowledge almost instantaneously. That’s not possible now. What you learn stays localised to you and may be people 1 degree away from you that’s it.

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