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Comment by pbronez

7 hours ago

Wasn’t familiar with this, tracked it down

https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-revers...

> There’s a bit of automation theory jargon that I ab­solutely adore: “centaurs” and “reverse-centaurs.” A centaur is a human being who is assisted by a machine that does some onerous task (like transcribing 40 hours of podcasts). A reverse-centaur is a machine that is assisted by a human being, who is expected to work at the machine’s pace.