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> AI can be just a tool. [...] But AI can also be much more than a tool, [...].

Contradictio. Going back to Seven...

> AI can be just a tool.

Nothing, ever, is just a tool.

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> Nothing, ever, is just a tool.

Are you going to expand on this or should we stand in awe?

It didn't receive much attention on HN but someone recently wrote a blogpost that elaborates on the idea. https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool

No need to go to Heidegger's Sein und Zeit, once required reading in many a school where I'm from; the logical conclusion and application of polysemy [1], amongst other things, should get the ball rolling just as well.

1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy]

A banana and duct tape can be just a snack and a tool for fixing a leak.

Or .. art.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/art/featu...

The banana isn't the art. The art is placing the banana in a gallery and art market context to make a funny and ironic comment about the gallery and art market context.

Programming is a craft. It's not an art, because creating code doesn't comment on, criticise, challenge, distill, or otherwise have anything to do with any human experience outside of programming.

Yes that was the point of the comment.

Where’s the contradiction?? X can be just Y, and X can be much more than Y. No contradiction, just an observation that you can use it one way or another.

Nothing ever is just a tool. Saying that X "can just be a tool" is a fundamental violation of that statement; saying then "X can be much more than just a tool" is a violation in form of a contradiction. It's very easy to parse...

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