Comment by drstewart

Taking a statement to its limits is useful for that reason. This is why it's so common to do in physics & math, in fact!

If your mental model breaks at the limits, it maybe means there's some truth in what you say, but there's a nuance that's clearly missing.

And that's the case here: nobody argues when automation comes for many types of other tasks, so why is mathematics special? Or even art? We should either find that line or accept that maybe they aren't as special as we assumed.