But Nestle’s pump not only doesn’t deplete the well, it’s adding to it!

BobaFloutist 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

No, it's able to reach deeper and pump more out than ever before, democratizing access to the water from the well, at the minor cost of the people of the village no longer having a well. But they're welcome to buy plastic bottles of their own water along with everyone else.

	▲	panta 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That they can afford only while the cost is subsidized. Then the well-in-a-bottle bubble will explode because everyone will realize that the business has never been sustainable, nobody really believed in it after all. But the well now has been damaged beyond repair.

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TJSomething an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Is this actually how water pumping works, or are we extending the metaphor to imply that the AI is creating knowledge? Because I would dispute the latter if the effect is that the number of people with a deep understanding of a subject declines.