[jeron]

it turns out it's really hard to get a man to fish with a pole when you don't teach them how to use the reel

[conductr]

In regards to copilot, they’ve also been led on a fishing expedition to the middle of a desert

[Banditoz]

If AGI is coming, won't there just be autofishers and no one will ever have to fish again, completely devaluing one's fishing knowledge and the effort put in to learn it?

[moregrist]

It’s not a great analogy but...

“Autofishers” are large boats with nets that bring in fish in vast quantities that you then buy at a wholesale market, a supermarket a bit later, or they flash freeze and sell it to you over the next 6-9 months.

Yet there’s still a thriving industry selling fishing gear. Because people like to fish. And because you can rarely buy fish as fresh as what you catch yourself.

Again, it’s not a great analogy, but I dunno. I doubt AGI, if it does come, will end up working the way people think it will.

[tsukurimashou]

> If AGI is coming

spoiler, it's not

[onorton]

I'm not sure if this was the intention of the analogy, but fishing poles don't have reels.

[throwawaysleep]

Or give them a stick with twine and a plastic fork as a hook, as is the case with Copilot.