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littlestymaarlast Monday at 5:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Like a car engine or a combine. The problem isn't the effectiveness of the tool for its purpose, it's the religion around it.


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quantummagiclast Monday at 5:57 PM

We seem to be talking past one another. All I was talking about was the facts of how these systems perform, without any reverence about it at all.

But to your point, I do see a lot of people very emotionally and psychologically committed to pointing out how deeply magical humans are, and how impossible we are to replicate in silicon. We have a religion about ourselves; we truly do have main character syndrome. It's why we mistakenly thought the earth was at the center of the universe for eons. But even with that disproved, our self-importance remains boundless.

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