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Banditoztoday at 2:26 AM2 repliesview on HN

If AGI is coming, won't there just be autofishers and no one will ever have to fish again, completely devaluing one's fishing knowledge and the effort put in to learn it?


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moregristtoday at 3:12 AM

It’s not a great analogy but...

“Autofishers” are large boats with nets that bring in fish in vast quantities that you then buy at a wholesale market, a supermarket a bit later, or they flash freeze and sell it to you over the next 6-9 months.

Yet there’s still a thriving industry selling fishing gear. Because people like to fish. And because you can rarely buy fish as fresh as what you catch yourself.

Again, it’s not a great analogy, but I dunno. I doubt AGI, if it does come, will end up working the way people think it will.

tsukurimashoutoday at 8:53 AM

> If AGI is coming

spoiler, it's not