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not that it WILL pay each adult $13.5k/yr, it'll just go to the few billionaires at the top, while the rest of us can pick up the scraps.
by markovbot 6y ago
not that it WILL pay each adult $13.5k/yr, it'll just go to the few billionaires at the top, while the rest of us can pick up the scraps.
- aphextron 6y agoYou're implying a futuristic ultra intelligent AI would leave scraps?
- cube00 6y agoWe can have the rounding errors from all the floating point calculations
- pbourke 6y agoUnfortunately the AI won’t be messing up any mundane details like that.
- ncallaway 6y agoNo, they're implying that the person who owns the futuristic ultra intelligent AI and receives the benefits of its output will leave scraps.
- neurotech1 6y agoAlthough not mentioned in either the article, or the essay it links to [0], Sam Altman is also a big proponent of Universal Basic Income[1]. My understanding is that part of his rationale for UBI is that certain types of jobs will disappear, partially due to AI. [0] https://moores.samaltman.com/ https://moores.samaltman.com/ [1] https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/basic-income/ https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/basic-income/
- 8note 6y agoSam is only rich enough to influence one of the two -- AI making the jobs go away.
- a3n 6y agoCame here to say this.