"Why would the Wright brothers fly a plane 100 feet up?" — AI skeptics get the aviation-history analogy
bennash · x · 2026-10-16
A retorted quip making the rounds: "Why would the Wright brothers spend time and money flying a plane that only goes 100 feet off the ground?" The analogy pushes back on skeptics who dismiss today's early-stage AI capabilities as impractical — early flight looked just as flimsy, but it was the start of everything.
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