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Originally Posted by ahi
You are upset because I called your excessively senseless analogy "stupid"?
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Oh, and I'm not upset at all. The fact that you find my analogy stupid is amusing to me too.
Your complaint is that machines obviously can't do the job of a properly trained expert in the field, and therefore people have to be stupid to prefer the machine version over the human version.
I'd say my analogy fits that quite well. It also points out that in the end, the consumer will choose what benefits them most, and not what the "literati" believes is best for them.
Someday, when Amagooglezon is beaming books directly into peoples implants so they scroll past our eyes virtually, someone will say the same thing you did, except they'll be referring to the old perfect tech of ebooks on a physical device.