Comments by "Eric Astier" (@ericastier1646) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. I will be honest, i haven't watched your video at all. I am only reacting to your video title as an engineer, not to oppose you but to give you an insider understanding of what's happened. I spend decades in the engineering fields and saw a bad evolution where engineers have lost the leadership and have become slaves to bean counters (the financial greedy executives, board of directors and shareholders). It is no better in Academia where greed and corruption lead to a majority of PhD's researchers to accept fat checks in exchange for providing false support to companies that produce hazardous noxious catastrophic products for the environment or useless possibly benign and possibly dangerous biopharmaceutical products or chemicals. There is one right in your backyard in Germany BASF which bought Monsanto responsible for the decay of honey bees all across the world. As an engineer i was so fed up by this system that i no longer work for big companies and am an entrepreneur. It's gone so far now that our engineering language is no longer in our control but the marketers, publicists, industrial journalists all those vulture and flees attracted by the future possibilities of our work have hijacked words like A.I. I can tell you honestly that there is no such thing as A.I. it is all a marketing scam, wanted by corporations because it has that trendy sci fi buzz to it. The reality is that it is nothing more than "algorithms". Whether run on software or on dedicated hardware for machine learning it is still nonetheless deterministic dead algorithms. But that does not sound cool so lying is better. And you cannot stop it it's become a viral word and every and their cousins who know absolutely jack nothing about technology especially politicians are speaking about it very seriously. IT still is nothing more than algorithms like in the 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 etc, running on today's faster computers. It's pathetic how lies is now part of the technical field. The medical field is in the same chaos look at all the lies about the covid RNA injection who have caused the death of many older people who contracted the virus after being injected weakened by a fake vaccine that does not protect at all. The rest is all political lies.
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  2. Ten years ago i decided to buy one of the most expensive and luxurious german car a brand new BMW M3 rolling out the factory floor to experience german technology precision and performance. I never had such a bad and unreliable vehicle constantly breaking down right from the beginning half a day after i teft Munich Germany ( i did eurpean delivery where i could drive my new car in europe before having it shipped abroad). The list of mechanical issues, is inacceptable, engine oil consumption, steering pump failing a low mileage, electornic damping system fails within 20,000 miles. Under warranty i had to bring it for repair every 2-3 months. And i am a cautious driver that never abused the car. I found that german technology superiority is a myth, and certainly horrible reliability. But as if that was not enough, the german also design non functional systems that just fail even when the system is working. for example the seat belt delivery system fails 40% of times where the automated arm fails to grab the seat belt and you just an empty hook coming next to you shoulder. The digital system is horibbly designed for example you most of the time listen to the radio and the radio nation frequency or name is never displayed. German made digital worse than analog used to be. To this day the car drains any new OEM premium battery in 1 year when it should last at least 3 year. There is no way to find what is causing it. And consume 1 liter of oil between oil changes, despite having followed all normal break down procedure. A piece of expensive, somewhat powerful and poorly engineered luxury german car. I will never buy anything German ever again, not even a screwdriver.
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