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Re:Time Is Different by tipperjones on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:12AM (#47177114)
You said there are three traits, but seems like you only listed two - unless you're counting strength and dexterity as separate and just worded it weirdly.
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Re:Time Is Different by rogerrogerr on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:30AM (#47177256)
I think they’re separate. You don’t need to be strong or intelligent to put circuit boards in printers, but there are factories full of people doing that. Purely because it’s currently cheaper to pay (low) wages to humans than to develop, deploy, and maintain automation to do that task. Yet.
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Re:Time Is Different by brigandish on Friday February 27, 2026 @08:00AM (#47180020)
AI will improve people’s understanding of the Oxford comma.
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