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'AI Is Not a Normal Technology' Rebuts the 2025 Normal-Technology Thesis on Generality Grounds
Theahura's September 13 post responds directly to the April 2025 "AI as Normal Technology" essay and to Tao's September remarks on AI in mathematics. The core claim is that the whole disagreement reduces to one question, whether AI acquires capability across the full span of human abilities, and that if it does, the standard "new jobs will appear" rebuttal fails because those new jobs are automatable too. Concrete examples cited are mathematical results obtained by prompting for a breakthrough, the surge of AI-assisted academic papers, and compression in graphic design favoring senior designers; it landed 37 points and 74 comments.
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