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Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by andsoitis on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:36AM (#38623109)
> I sometimes like to muse on what a Victorian person would make of today if transported through time. Or someone from 16th century Europe. Or Archimedes. They’d mostly understand a lot, I think. But lately I’ve started to think of someone from the 1950s. They might even find today harder to understand than the others would.

why do you think someone from the 50s would find it harder to understand our time, than someone from an earlier age, even as far back as 2000 years?

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Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism by kaashif on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @09:04AM (#38627482)
Especially considering people from the 1950s are alive today. Some of them (e.g. my parents) understand technology just fine.

If they had experienced the transition suddenly instead of gradually, I still think they'd be fine relatively soon.

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