Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Economic Update: The Great Replacement Theory" video.

  1.  @blackknight4996  There's a really smart sensible TEDx done by another engineer Emily Calandrelli called "Making science nicer, stupid" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9haKpJakU4 Yeah I know the whole "T" for technology in TED/TEDx has deteriorated in the last couple of years into fantasy futurism crap, but that talk is from when it still meant something and they had quality people on. Emily pointed out that one of the biggest issues in the world right now is STEM literacy coupled with STEM people NOT talking sensibly to the world. these days I get way more frustrated with the techno-promoters than almost anyone. Every time some techno-promoter says something that the media jumps onto it can take months if not years to straighten out. Look at Prof Wolff's comments on automation, robotics and AI. He's just repeating what so many have said. Here's a perfect example of the garbage about automation and if you tried to remove this item of automation from society 1/2 of the developed world will simply kill you. Its called the clothes washing machine. Prior to it, women had to wash EVERYTHING BY HAND 1 item at a time. There was a TV series back in 2000 called the 1900 house. They took a typical family of 5 (2 girls and 1 boy) and put them into a 1900 tenement house where they had taken out EVERYTHING made after 1901. I only saw a few episodes but there was 1 where the wife explained laundry. After explaining how much time it took, she said "No wonder girls didn't go to school!" So when people bash automation I like to tell them "Fine lets start with washing machines, so that girls DON'T get to go to school and learn how to read an write and when that special time of the month comes around there wont be any modern products for that either." People forget all the automation in their lives that make things easier and better.
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  2. There's actually a series of giant misunderstandings in this. I am an engineer who's worked in control systems, automation and robotics for 30+ years. NOBODY ever lost their job to automation or a robot or AI. This is a trope that economists (both Left and Right) have used for decades and its simply WRONG. NOT ONCE in 30+ years has a job I have done cost a person their job. You see when a company INVESTS in automation jobs don't disappear they change. Most of the jobs lost in the Western World were lost when companies closed older inefficient factories and MOVED. In America sometimes they moved to another state with incentives like lower taxes (like Texas) but usually moved to places with cheaper labor like Mexico or China. As for AI that's a pathetic joke. The Software that's marketed as AI is not anything that's actually thinking. Its one of the greatest frauds perpetrated on the general public in history. There simply is no such thing as a mand made intelligence. What exists are algorithms that can mimic specific tasks and do them in a way that seems intelligent. They are particularly well suited to methodical repetitive tasks - things like facial recognition. Where a human can look at a photo for a few seconds and compare it to a known photo an algorithm can do the same but at a rate of 100s each second.
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