Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
by stonogo on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:30PM
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I saw that meme too, except the version I saw had the top comment included in the crop, which was something to the effect of "warnings are put on products in response to customer behavior, not as a preventative measure. somebody's parents tried to drink battery acid."
Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
by RC_ITR on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:26PM
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Sure, but that's an argument against abstraction/specialization that is also somewhat hard to really buy into.
How do you smelt bronze? How do you grow crops? How do you build a lean-to?
Knowing how to do all those things does give you a very intrinsic understanding of a lot of things, but it's probably not wise to force everyone to learn those things.
EDIT: Apparently you don't smelt bronze, you smelt pure metals out of ores. lol.
I hope not. I saw a pretty funny meme on Reddit today that went something like "50 years ago car manuals explained how to adjust the valves in your engine. Now they ask that you don't drink the battery fluid".
I think another big downside of so much technological progress is that people no longer need to understand, and get the benefit of learning, how things work. Yeah, it was a PITA that 35 years ago I had to muck with config.sys and autoexec.bat files, but it helped me have a better understanding of how things worked under the covers. There was some discussion on HN recently about how many Gen Z folks are woefully unprepared digitally for the workforce because they are so used to iPhones/iPads/apps, etc., that you don't know how thing actually work - like people not understanding what the file system is.