Cars-Horses Technology Analogy
Commenters repeatedly analogize skepticism toward emerging technologies (likely AI) to historical dismissals of early automobiles as inferior to horses, arguing that revolutionary changes require time and infrastructure.
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That's like saying cars are useless a hundred years ago because they were slower than horses.
I bet people had the same thing to say about cars in the early 20th century (not without some justification though).
That sounds suspiciously like the "just get a horse" argument about the first cars.
This is like saying the car is nothing new because various forms of wheeled transport have been around for centuries.Typical HN.
In the sense that a car is a reinvention of a horse buggy.
yeah, who gonna pay for the horse carriages with all those automobile inventions?
People said the same thing about the horseless carriage in the early days of the automobile; they could cite evidence of the superior dependability of a horse and buggy. Things eventually changed. Let's see how things shake out from here.
Yes, the horse carriage drivers had similar lines of thoughts when they saw first gen automobiles.
"flying car" is just the modern version of "faster horse"
Yup, this is before the car revolution took off.