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Re:Thoughts on Thinking by fennecbutt on Sunday May 18, 2025 @09:37PM (#44025822)
Do all of you replying to me also weep for expensive hand woven fabrics? You're all wearing the fruits of automatic looms. It's the same thing.

You own cars, do you weep for the horse industry? Stables, farriers, blacksmiths, leatherworkers/saddlers, ostlers, grooms, etc.

What is an art now becomes a functional ubiquity later. Everything took "insight and effort" because everything was handmade, it's an innate feature. And now those things are mass manufactured and it's what the people want. Humanity will move on to calling whatever current thing we're manually doing an art.

Re:Thoughts on Thinking by jonplackett on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:42AM (#44039247)
This is also a pointless comparison.

Horses weren’t art. They were a way to get somewhere.

The whole problem with AI is it’s trying to automate the things people LIKE to do and take their life meaning from instead of the things that no one likes doing - like pulling a carriage or a plough.

Re:Thoughts on Thinking by parodysbird on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @01:34PM (#44043922)
How is what the same thing? Fabric production vs social communication? I don't really see what is the relation here.