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createfulyesterday at 6:12 PM1 replyview on HN

> By taking away my ability to earn a living.

But this is an economy / capitalism problem, not an AI problem? AI isn't at fault that you can't get a job, your boss is for replacing you with AI.

That's like saying we should ban cars because millions of people who would upkeep horses for others to use just lost their jobs.

You're essentially making your life purposely harder because you want uninterrupted money. Perhaps look at the issues of the system that does this?

> What great things...

Aside from the medical AI stuff (detecting breast cancer, etc) that's mostly covered, AI can be helpful if you have to do a boring task that you don't want to do yourself. This is pretty much what every technology does - your phone is created so you don't have to run home and use the landline to make a phone call - it's making an already existing task easier.

>...and why would I get access to those things?

Why not? Seriously, why not? It's a bit like asking why should I get access to a car instead of keeping my horse around. You can keep your horse or car. Nobody's pressuring you to replace your horse with a car.


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rightbyteyesterday at 6:44 PM

> your phone is created so you don't have to run home and use the landline to make a phone call - it's making an already existing task easier.

There are externalities. In my experience it was way easier to call people in the 90s. People answered and if not their faimily members did.

It was impossible to ghost phone calls until the early 2000s with presentation screens.

Nowadays people hardly answer unknown numbers or might ignore inconvinient calls.

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