Maybe we can provide hospice care for those who can’t let go immediately—help them find something fun to do first. But we can hold smaller funerals step by step. For example, we once thought humans were better than computers at playing Go; then AlphaGo arrived, so we held a funeral for that superiority. And for chess, shogi, transcriptions, voice synthesis, translations—funerals for each piece of human superiority. We don’t need a big funeral all at once.

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