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intuitionistyesterday at 10:42 PM5 repliesview on HN

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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tapoxiyesterday at 11:13 PM

And soon we expect everyone to have a mech suit, and only a handful of companies can make one, and they rent it to you and can revoke it at any time.

And what happens when they've saturated the market? Prices go up to the maximum the market can bear, and then they'll extend into other markets. Why rent the model to build a profitable company with when you could just take all that profit for yourself?

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noosphryesterday at 10:53 PM

>It’s more like, the guy on the assembly line had a mech suit, and now he doesn’t have a mech suit

You just answered your own question there.

One woman was doing what would take a dozen. Now she can't.

nemomarxyesterday at 10:54 PM

Are people working to keep their skills up, much? Spending a day a week coding manually or etc?

hackable_sandyesterday at 11:50 PM

I think it's more like:

The dude was incompetent, was able to launder their incompetence through a humunculus, and now is afraid of being caught.