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Re:The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023) by bcrosby95 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:02PM (#49455863)
The first thing this wave of automation seems likely to replace is automation itself.

For this reason it's hard for me to give much attention to comparisons to previous industrial revolutions. It would have looked way different if the first thing they built was a factory factory.

I will give this post some slack though, it was written in 2023.

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Re:The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023) by oblio on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:13PM (#49456021)
> It would have looked way different if the first thing they built was a factory factory.

They couldn't, they didn't have enterprise Java back then.

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Re:The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023) by j1mr10rd4n on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:39PM (#49456300)
<applause!/>
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Re:The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023) by ForHackernews on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:06PM (#49455911)
Replacing a deterministic factory that makes one type of car that always comes with seatbelts and airbags with a probabilistic vibestruder that churns out carlike objects that usually drive and typically have something that resembles an airbag.
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