Eric Weinstein on the crisis of late capitalism

Re:Eric Weinstein on the crisis of late capitalism by lumberjack on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:14PM (#17459933)

The solution is to use technology to replace high skilled professions with average Joes. These high skilled professionals can just go do research, and there is always more research to be done. The average Joes will be aided by a combination of technology and human supervision to do a job that is effectively as good as a professional would have done it.

For example, a nurse might be retrained to do diagnosis. Instead of learning the corpus of medical literature they will have Internet access to a database and supervision from an MD. So that way we might be able to replace many MDs who will instead go into research.

I think that is the sane way forward. And it won't be a solution for everyone, of course. But I think it should be doable.

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Re:Eric Weinstein on the crisis of late capitalism by dogma1138 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @04:32AM (#17461704)

That sounds like a recipe for “idoacracy”.

What happens when there is an emergency and the system is unavailable?

You are literally training people to be button pushers that’s a horrible horrible idea especially when so many innovations come out from the work place when people are faced with challenges.

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Re:Eric Weinstein on the crisis of late capitalism by candiodari on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:32PM (#17474422)

Would you make the same claim about how we require groups of people for everything we do ? What if we run out of architects ? What if we run out of neurosurgeons (given that we're always saving, saving saving on training such people resulting in their numbers not increasing despite the obvious incentive, combined with idiotic ideas about outsourcing it's becoming a real possibility, certainly for particular geographies)

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