It feels like spending your teens practicing football, playing varsity level in high school, getting really good at the college level, finally recruited into the NFL as a pro football player (dream came true!!) and suddenly, the team owner says, "No more football playing for you. You get the same salary but you're managing robots who play the football. Deal with it."

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thunky 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Considering how punishing a football career is, that sounds like a good deal.

Look at Andrew Luck.

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tarsierscripter 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Swap it out for chess. Tell Magnus Carlsen he can't play chess anymore. Instead he gets paid to run a Stockfish team in an all-engine tournament.

	▲	thunky 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Computers can destroy Magnus. Yet he still plays and nobody gets to tell him or anyone else they have to stop. If people stop being interested in human-played chess, then yes he's out of luck. But that could happen with or without computers. Same for football and anything else. So I don't think this analogy works either.

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ryandrake 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

OK, replace football with any other sport then.

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abalashov 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I hadn't thought of that type of comparison, but it's apt.

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conradfr 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Also, we only need two of you"