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A new technology is judged against perfection rather than against the thing it would replace, which is why it always comes up short.

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  1. Paul Bloom

    Psychologist at the University of Toronto and professor emeritus at Yale

    The second failure of rationality is a status quo bias: an unseemly attachment to the way things currently are; an irrational overweighing of the cost of the new. We effectively end up comparing a new technology to perfection, so it’s no wonder it comes up short.

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    ↗Death by AIsmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net

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