alt Hacker News> 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.
You just proved my point.
> Nowadays people hardly answer unknown numbers or might ignore inconvinient calls.
So your phone does make calls and it is useful but you don't want to use it nowadays NOT because the technology is useless but because of phone spammers and because phones may have potentially made it easier for phone spammers to exist?
Which, once again, is the exact point I raised with AI. You don't like it NOT because the technology is trash - but because the current capitalist system makes businesses profit less when they have to pay you, so they work hard to use technology to replace you in hopes of paying less.
Which is why I say, this is less an AI problem and more a capitalist one. If there was no benefit to replacing people with technology then people would not be replaced. But currently the current system tries to give you benefits for not having to pay people.
So even if we all fight AI and get it banned it won't solve the underlying problem which will mean that it will repeat with a different thing.