Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Google Strikes Back (The AI Wars)" video.

  1. As an engineer I could not agree more. Below this is the reply I just gave to a thread started by AlanKey86 that goes "Within the next 10 videos, ColdFusion will slip in 1 where the script's been written by AI... the test will be if we, the audience, can spot it :D" Considering the malignant epidemic of technical ignorance that constantly bedazzles the general public anytime somebody does yet another over-hyped story of "wow-wee future tech" that you all suck down into your vacuous brains then NOBODY should expect many people to notice if the BULLSHlT they are being told comes from a clown or an AI. Yesterday 40,000 children died because we didn't feed them, today another 40,000 will die because we aren't feeding them and tomorrow another 40,000 will die because we don't have food for them. And that's before we get onto the 10s of 1000s who will die from simple infections and other easily dealt with ailments. MEANWHILE we have a room full of idiots who think being able to photoshop better is worth spending millions of dollars on. I heard a term recently "Scientism." Its the ideology that science and technology will somehow magically fix everything. As an engineer I don't know which form of technology will magically start feeding children or the magical tech that will fix the climate WHEN M0R0NS keep thinking this crap is more important.
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  2.  @felixisaac  I'm trying to help make the agricultural sector produce more food though better land management. So far I keep hitting walls of ignorance. WTF are you doing?
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  3.  @felixisaac  There is the most terrible aspect of that. There's nothing you or I could do that will stop the next million children dying of hunger or the other million dying from a lack of basic medicine. All we can do are those things that might make the world a better place at some point in the future. I'm actually an aerospace engineer and when they did the first road map for the Australian Space Agency the very 1st item in the list was advanced space based water management with the claim it MIGHT be available in the mid 2030s. Its an area of space technology called Earth Observation Sciences. My attitude was "Why TF are we going to wait until 2035 for somebody to just gives it to us. Lets just get on with it." Australia currently has a population of 26 million but produces food for more than 75 million. If we mismanage our water (and we have a long history of doing that) then we don't produce as much food as we should and a lot of people go hungry. However - if you try and tell the Australian Government you want to spend a few hundred million so that it will help starving children in other countries it wont go far. There are these people called economists and they'll ask "What's the business case for that?" So I tried another tack. Australia's ag sector employs over 300,000 people and is worth just $200+ Billion a year. Our tourism industry employs over 550,000 people and is worth over $55+ Billion a year. So collectively we have a lot of people dependent on the management of our rivers, land, forests and ocean areas. So I pushed that as simple straight forward economic reason - protecting jobs & money. I GOT NOWHERE. Unfortunately I'd upset a few egos, which is an ever bigger issue than economics when it comes to politics.
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  4.  @Bankable2790  Yep you have described academia pretty well. There is a rather false myth that academics are pure hearted people only interested in learning, knowledge, teaching and truth. I did 3 years of post graduate research and was so disgusted by what I saw I walked away from a fully funded PhD scholarship. My supervisor told me TO MY FACE how he was committing financial fraud by using money assigned for purchasing equipment in my project for airfares for him to a conference and that conversation ended with the words "This is how things are done. Get used to it."
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  5. ​ @technolus5742  If you have a workable idea that we can all live with about dealing with the pandemic of misinformation THEN PLEASE TELL US. Because other than educating people to think I have nothing and as far as I know humanity has spent several centuries trying to teach people to think and all it got us was Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂
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  6. As an engineer let me put it this way. Considering the malignant epidemic of technical ignorance that constantly bedazzles the general public anytime somebody does yet another over-hyped story of "wow-wee future tech" that you all suck down into your vacuous brains then NOBODY should expect many people to notice if the BULLSHlT they are being told comes from a clown or an AI. Yesterday 40,000 children died because we didn't feed them, today another 40,000 will die because we aren't feeding them and tomorrow another 40,000 will die because we don't have food for them. And that's before we get onto the 10s of 1000s who will die from simple infections and other easily dealt with ailments. MEANWHILE we have a room full of idiots who think being able to photoshop better is worth spending millions of dollars on. I heard a term recently "Scientism." Its the ideology that science and technology will somehow magically fix everything. As an engineer I don't know which form of technology will magically start feeding children or the magical tech that will fix the climate WHEN M0R0NS keep thinking this crap is more important.
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