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dr_dshiv11/06/20251 replyview on HN

> That's much less clear to me.

But you must see that, if this point falls away, so does the argument.

“With some practice” surely means less 100 hours of practice. Not extensive practice, or PhD level practice or master-level practice.

Will the average person, after 100 hours of practice, really be rated better than AI at music, writing, visual art, coding, research, etc?


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mlyle11/06/2025

??? most of us have a lot more than 100 hours of practice at things like this. Probably "some practice" means roughly the secondary background most people have, then undergraduate plus a couple of years of industry work?

If we're thinking about what human activity it will or can displace, it's probably unfair to compare it a seasoned doctorate. But it's also probably unfair to compare it to a kid with a few months of music lessons, too.

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