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Perhaps if the transistor was invented today, some people would be disgusted at how it mimicks the ingenuity of humans calculating


Or the camera - think about how it puts all those portrait painters out of a job, and it makes anyone who can click a button think they’re some kind of genius artist, and it’s ruining the environment with all the toxic waste produced from developing the film


I would be dubious of the utility if it calculated imperfectly and in a way that couldn't be understood and characterized by people.

If the advice to the public given by experts in the field was that this lack of determinism and understandability was acceptable I would be disgusted.




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