Comment by tempaccount5050
6 days ago
Whether or not you want to admit that is up to you. If you're selling automation or efficiency gains, you're removing human labor.
6 days ago
Whether or not you want to admit that is up to you. If you're selling automation or efficiency gains, you're removing human labor.
My first "job" in computing, where someone else paid me for code, was in a research context where we were modeling radio propagation. Nothing about that was removing human labor. It in face eventually called for a bunch of humans to interact with each other. See: https://www.hamsci.org/basic-project/2017-total-solar-eclips...
I don't think it is fair to claim computers are about putting people out of jobs.
I think it is. Before computers you would have had to write all that down on paper logs. By using code, you saved yourself time. If it wasn't less labor, you wouldn't have done it that way.
Before it was less labor, they might not have done it at all. Computers let you do things quicker. So you do more things.
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> Before computers
Computer used to mean "human who does math". Before machine computers, we had human computers. Machine computers replaced all of these human computers.
People *did* write down these logs, manually, and submit them.
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Human labor could do the math by hand
And in fact, was how it was done.
I'm improving error prone systems to make the world more efficient, not to replace people.