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RichardKennaway comments on November 2012 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 02 November 2012 01:42:33PM 25 points [-]

I like the robot's response:

Can you?

Even if robots fail to reach the peak of human capability, so do most ordinary people.

Comment author: Randy_M 02 November 2012 02:42:58PM 6 points [-]

And if you specify more than one capability, nearly everyone does.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 02 November 2012 04:02:55PM -1 points [-]

Interesting when contrasted to this exchange:

You see... a carpenter, making a beautiful chair. And then one of your robots comes in and makes a better chair twice as fast. And then you superimpose on the screen, "USR: Shittin' on the Little Guy". That would be the fade-out.

I suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don't know, maybe you would have simply banned the Internet to keep the libraries open.