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LinkPizza posted...
You can still use past events if things haven't changed much to predict the future pretty reliably in many cases.

Sure. And the development of AI and machine learning constitutes a fairly substantive change in this context.

Never before has a technology emerged that threatens to make humans obsolete en masse. We've created plenty of machines in the past that have rendered human physical labour obsolete, but never one that makes human mental labour and decision-making capacity obsolete, yet that's exactly what AI does.

LinkPizza posted...
Like buying food, paying rent and bills, buying clothes for different weather and environments, and the materials for whatever it is you need that you could potentially make.

Of those, only real estate is something that could not be produced by an entirely automated workforce with no human interaction.

LinkPizza posted...
So, no. I wouldn't have said that.

Given your wildly reactionist viewpoints in this topic, I'm guessing you would have.

LinkPizza posted...
When used informally, it can mean "used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true."

Cool.

You're not in an informal setting, you're presenting an argument.

Words have meanings. Get used to it.

LinkPizza posted...
As for the "No U!" argument, if it's true, it's true.

But it's not, so it isn't.

LinkPizza posted...
Also, it seems to be an obviously typo since it's one letter (and 'r' and 'n' actually look pretty similar), but I guess you can pretend you don't know what I was saying.

What seems to be "an obviously typo"?

Please provide context to your sentences or quote what you're responding to, because otherwise it's impossible to tell what you're talking about when you suddenly change subjects like this.

LinkPizza posted...
And the Alleged Certainty fallacy is saying that without proof.

Saying what without proof?

Please provide context to your sentences or quote what you're responding to, because otherwise it's impossible to tell what you're talking about when you suddenly change subjects like this.

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