Re:NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surpris...
by nmfisher on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:38AM
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I don't know, Dubai is...bigger, but I'd say it's vastly more mediocre city than Rome. To your original point, making things easier to make probably does exert downward pressure on quality in the aesthetic/artistic sense. Dubai might have taller buildings and better sewage system[0], but it will never have the soul of a place like Rome.
[0] Given the floods I saw recently, I'm not even sure this is even true.
We move orders of magnitude more cargo and material than them because fitness isn't the limiting factor on how much work gets done. They didn't understand that having humans doing all that labour is a mistake and the correct approach is to use machines.