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EMIRELADEROyesterday at 10:34 PM1 replyview on HN

> Pretty much any cognitive thing we do manually could be done in software.

Yes, although I suggest being careful with that kind of thinking.

https://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/...


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keedayesterday at 10:46 PM

Ooh, I hadn't read that one, have put on my list. I couldn't read the page properly because ads keep popping up and making the page jump around... but it seems the linked section was be about displacement of workers? If so, that's always been true of all technology, but that's less a problem with technology and more with the social system it is applied in. I just posted this comment elsewhere that may be relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078930

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