Well, in part it answers the question "what if I lose my job to AI" - at least you don't become deadweight in the economy, you'd still have income to spend on housing, food and whatever else.
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Bernie’s soverign wealth fund idea isn’t a bad one…
i think its about making people own the AI??
It's modeled somewhat on the Alaska permanent fund, which is compensating Alaskans with profits from the oil being extracted from their state.
There are unlimited ways to screw it up, but if AI suddenly becomes ridiculously profitable, having 50% of those profits cycled into the general fund could pay for things like UBI...
Yeah, nobody asked for fire, either.
ARPAnet was also conceived to be a resillient communication network to ensure reliable command and control communication between surviving assets in the event of nuclear attack.
I just re-watched Willy Wonka from 1971 - there is a scene in there where they ask the computer to find a golden ticket and it converses in a very AI-like fashion. The 1968 movie 2001 definitely went hard on HAL, the "Intelligent Computer". People have been pushing hard advancing the technology any way they can since even before then.
they’ve found something they want to spend it on, so they’re emptying 20 years of profits in 5.
That's what .com did as well.
reporting for literal decades that Apple, Amazon, Google, and similar have been sitting on giant war chests of profit with nothing to spend it on.
I remember when a "shockingly large" war chest was $30B - that's like table stakes anymore.
I just want to talk to person.
Careful what you are wishing for, person may be on other side of the world answering your call at 4am local time with most polite scripts which you could have read for yourself on website.
It is different, in lots of ways. "Back then" there were a lot more captive audiences, people who had no access to any other sources of information. So, while we're in 24/7 saturation, we also have the option to "switch the channel"
Unfortunately, once somebody has decided what they want to hear, they can "switch the channel" until they find one that reinforces whatever that may be, from "The Earth is Flat" onward... Still, "The Truth is Out There" and you can access more of it, if you really want to / know how to, than ever before.
Doctors "humanity" kills a lot of people, every day, that wouldn't have died if they did a statistical matching of their symptoms to the available research literature.
It's not for you, anyway.
In my professional work, I have watched AI code reviews catch 10x more dumb slop human errors than human reviews used to the same time a year earlier, consistently for about 8 months now.
Reality: we have 134 federal shit welfare programs, every one of them with some needs based proctological exam required prior to qualification to apply for possible consideration for aid as a last resort when the other 133 programs won't cover the needs. That is toxic bullshit driving guilt and shame among a majority of flyover state conservative voters who are in denial that their ass is on Federal assistance so they get vocal about how bad it all is (but quietly: don't you dare cancel MY aid program, I deserve it.)
Reality: every single living breathing human being in this country NEEDS a certain amount of money to pay for food, shelter, and if you happen to be fortunate enough to own your shelter outright and grow your own food, you have a shit ton of taxes to pay, so...
If we would start with UBI, shitcan all the piddly little needs based programs that provide less than UBI anyway, people could actually put the time, effort and emotional energy that's wasted on qualification for needs based programs into something positive. Even sitting on the fucking couch getting stoned while watching Netflix brings more positive energy to our country than the welfare programs.
In effect, after all the hoop jumping and contorted political favors, we have a progressive tax system that does provide UBI plus a dose of https://genius.com/The-clash-know-your-rights-lyrics Investigation, humiliation And if you cross your fingers, rehabilitation... and then it turns around and lowers the percentage tax rate on the wealthiest, so it's the middle class that's getting screwed, and when we get done destroying the middle class who's going to pay then? UBI + flat tax makes a progressive tax system. The current US budget could be revenue neutral with $600 per month + 31% flat tax, and still give the rich as much in "incentive programs" as the population is getting in UBI.