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I wonder what size a community needs to be for UBI to function in a self-sustaining way. I'd like to see some game theoretical research into it too if anyone ha
by dharma1 8y ago
I wonder what size a community needs to be for UBI to function in a self-sustaining way. I'd like to see some game theoretical research into it too if anyone has pointers?
- MrZongle2 8y agoThat's a good question. By the same token: is there a maximum community size that can support UBI?
- dharma1 8y agoQuite possibly, things like distance and number of participants would most likely change the dynamics. That's why I was wondering about the game theory part, so it could perhaps be modelled and tested in software. Running large scale UBI experiments is pretty slow and expensive, so tuning the parameters in the real world to make it work is going to take a very long time and cost a lot of money.
- airstrike 8y agoHow exactly do you plan on modeling how people are going to behave after receiving the aid? That's what these real-life experiments are trying to do in order to inform their models. It's not like economists don't know how to build models...
- dharma1 8y agoI don't know what I would model or how - that's why I was asking for pointers :) And I in addition to economists, I would be interested in seeing contributions from physicists, computer scientists and machine learning researchers. This paper was super interesting - https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03058 https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03058, as was this - https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06376 https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06376 But would like to see UBI specific papers.