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jayd16today at 7:28 AM4 repliesview on HN

All machines are for laziness.


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vouaobrasiltoday at 1:28 PM

Not exactly. A drawing program could just create a new "blank slate" that substitutes some old skill requirements for new skills. The key point is that SOME machines create a sufficient mass of "blank slate"-like environments for active creativity and others (like AI) only diminish that room for creatvity to flourish. The danger is creating and using machines of the latter type.

cryo32today at 8:11 AM

This is totally wrong.

Some machines are capability amplifiers.

Other machines are shit puking buck passing time sinks.

globular-toasttoday at 8:08 AM

I think you are confusing machines with motors. Many machines do things that simply are not possible without. A bicycle, for example, is not at any less work than walking, but it enables you to go faster than you can run. Menually operated sewing machines produce stitches that would be infeasible by hand.

Motorising any of those machines could be considered lazy, though.

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4gotunameagaintoday at 7:31 AM

What about exercise machines ?

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