Submitted by Spirited-Meringue829 t3_11wp698 in Futurology
Enough_Island4615 t1_jd3thwt wrote
Reply to comment by augustulus1 in What jobs cannot be done by machines? by Spirited-Meringue829
Nope. There is nothing intrinsic about a definition.
augustulus1 t1_jd4kmck wrote
Yes, there is. Even if you alter the definition, the same time it splits into two concepts. If you change the meaning of "handcrafted" into something like "created randomly either by machines or humans", you just create an other concept. So, now you have a category of "handcrafted items" which has two subcategories: machine made and man made. The latter obviously can't be produced by machines.
It doesn't matter how many times you repeat this action, because every time a new definition will be born. It's not possible to erase a concept from existence, therefor there will always be stuffs which, by definition, can't be made by machines.
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