[SnooSux]

I've barely forgiven him for explaining genetic algorithms and acting like they have any relevance to contemporary ML research.

The footnote video was an alright explanation of backprop. If that were part of the main video that would have been reasonable.

I really like his history/geography videos but anything technical leave a lot to be desired. And don't get me started on Humans Need Not Apply.

[jstx1]

> And don't get me started on Humans Need Not Apply.

Well now you have to tell us. :) Many of the concrete examples in that video are exaggerated and/or misunderstood but the general question it asks - what to do when automation makes many people unemployable through no fault of their own - seems valid.

[musicale]

> what to do when automation makes many people unemployable through no fault of their own - seems valid

Unfortunately the video doesn't answer its own question directly.

The answer for the past 40 years or so seems to be "move them to lower-paying service jobs, or out of the job market entirely."

[robotresearcher]

Another part of the answer over the last 40 (or 200) years, is to repeatedly create totally new industries that employ lots of people, including a large fraction of HN readers.

[ketzo]

Yeah, but what does the Venn diagram look like there?

Yes, new technologies create new jobs.

But it’s not usually the people from the old jobs who are taking those new jobs.

[musicale]

> it’s not usually the people from the old jobs who are taking those new jobs

https://news.mit.edu/2022/automation-drives-income-inequalit...

[robotresearcher]

That can be terribly hard on people, while great for other people. What would you suggest would be better?

[dragonwriter]

A progressive income tax that does not exclude or favor capital income, so that funding ideally targeted transitional assistance, UBI (with a rate ratcheting up with sustained increases in per capita revenue), or, ideally, both so that the adverse effects of labor market shifts which shuffle or concentrate labor demand or shift from labor-intensive to capital-intensive methods are buffered.

[vkou]

Tax robots. At a minimum, at the highest income tax rate bracket.

[j33zusjuice]

I find this discussion fascinating, but YouTube is one of the last places I’d go for that discussion, unless it’s a debate between two highly-regarded minds on the topic (like Chomsky vs Foucault back in the day). I’m not very interested in listening to random people tell me their ideas without any good pathways for critiques or questions.

[flangola7]

Humans Need Not Apply is one of the most phenomenal videos on YouTube, what do you think is wrong with it?