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SPEAKER_00 worries that incrementally automating human-operated processes can trap development in a local optimum.

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“And then the other thing I think about is also,”
“I guess, building up from small things to bigger things, where I assume that the general temptation or the typical development is incremental,”
“where like everything is human operated,”
“and then you find ways in which to automate it and then you sort of build up from there.”
“I worry that sometimes that that is the way that people evolve things,”
“but that's a local minima, optimum.”
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