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noosphryesterday at 10:35 PM1 replyview on HN

The human labor just said:

"Losing access to GPT‑5.5 feels like I've had a limb amputated.”

How well would an assembly line of quadriplegics work?

Also this isn't a Marxist analysis. Underneath all the formulas neo-classical economics makes the same assumptions about labor.


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intuitionistyesterday at 10:42 PM

ChatGPT isn’t literally or figuratively cutting off anybody’s limbs though. It’s more like, the guy on the assembly line had a mech suit, and now he doesn’t have a mech suit, and he’s sad. Skill atrophy is a real concern but unless you assume that nobody is working to maintain those skills it doesn’t change my analysis much.

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