smogcutter

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   by smogcutter 10y ago

   The point isn't just that debt would be paid off. It’s that consumption would remain at a similar level, except instead of being funded by a combination of debt and aid it’s funded by UBI. For sure there'd be some inflation, I ju
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   by smogcutter 10y ago

   I'm not convinced that UBI would be canceled out by inflation (although I agree with GP that it would likely be captured by landlords). This is all extremely speculative, but my intuition is that in the population where UBI would have
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   by smogcutter 10y ago

   In what specific ways is homelessness a problem which is illegal to solve?
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   by smogcutter 10y ago

   I wonder about how eye contact will function in VR - cameras inside the goggles tracking eye direction? I suspect that eye contact is the kind of problem without a lot of room for error. Get it only slightly wrong and the effect could be ve
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   by smogcutter 10y ago

   Agreed for that example, especially in light of what Google later became. Pre-Google, what would the custom conference table guy do? Presumably cold-call and place ads in trade papers. Not an insurmountable problem, assuming there's de