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'A 200-horsepower car implies dramatic improvement, not equivalence, because it is not physically possible to perform the same tasks with 200 horses. There are not 200 horses obsoleted by the existence of a car, there just newly viable economic tasks.'
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'Only in the aftermath of witnessing its novel capabilities do we articulate that a car gives to a man the (literal, physical) power of 200 horses; we do not start by imagining squishing 200 horses into a metal box.'