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When we felt we were getting close to flight, people were jumping off buildings in wing suits.

And then, the Wright Bros. cracked the problem.

Rocketry, Apollo...

Same thing here. And it's bound to have the same consequences, both good and bad. Let's not forget how dangerous the early web was with all of the random downloadables and popups that installed exe files.

Evolution finds a way, but it leaves a mountain of bodies in the wake.

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> When we felt we were getting close to flight, people were jumping off buildings in wing suits. And then, the Wright Bros. cracked the problem.

Yeah they cracked the problem with a completely different technology. Letting LLMs do things in a browser autonomously is insane.

> Let's not forget how dangerous the early web was with all of the random downloadables and popups that installed exe files.

And now we are unwinding all of those mitigations all in the name of not having to write your own emails.

you also have to be a real asshole to send an email written by AI, at least if you speak the language fluently. If you can't take the time to choose your words what gives you the right to expect me to spend my precious life reading them?

if you send AI generated emails, please punch yourself in the face

Agree, completely.

https://marketoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/230327.n...

I'm ok with individual pioneers taking high but informed risks in the name of progress. But this sounds like companies putting millions of users in wing suits instead.

Was just coming here to say that. Anyone who's familiar with the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions wouldn't characterize it as a technological evolution that left mountains of bodies in its wake. Yes, there were casualties (Apollo 1) but they were relatively minimal.

The problem is exactly that we seem to have forgotten how dangerous the early web was and are blithely reproducing that history.

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