You can buy a camera, portable music player, handheld gaming console, eBook reader, dumb phone, calculator, etc to solve each sub problem efficiently. Or you can buy a smart phone that generically solves every relevant problem. What direction did you take and how is life with it?

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hilariously an hour ago | parent [-]

Those are all digital bit operating items that can be put into one box, the physical world doesn't work like that.

	▲	skeledrew an hour ago \| parent [-]
		What makes the physical world different in this context? Isn't it things that humans are currently doing that we're automating away? Why not a human-like (in terms of capabilities) machine so it has similar flexibility?