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thaumasiotes • yesterday at 1:50 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

They can't be tools at all by his logic, because using them is 100% similar to ordering a sandwich.


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datsci_est_2015 • yesterday at 1:27 PM

Are you saying a sandwich ordering service is a tool? Just because something has been turned into a service doesn’t mean it’s a tool, because otherwise literally any physically achievable action could be turned into a tool by making a service around it, thus completely diluting the definition of “tool” to “literally any physically achievable action”. That’s not a particularly useful definition.