It depends how you implement the tax. I voted for Bernie in 2016, but he definitely wants to preserve human jobs, rather than ensure dignity and prosperity when jobs no longer make sense. IIRC, in the past he was for a jobs guarantee over a UBI, for example.

I'm not a tax or policy expert, but I assume the better way to do this would be to tax the economic output of automation systems, rather than tax companies for replacing a human worker.

This would be a way to fund UBI

This is monumentally stupid.

We finally have the technology to have robots take over back breaking work and menial tasks and in the process make everything insanely cheap and abundant; so we’re going to artificially make everything expensive again by taxing non-humans.

Our government is filled with a bunch
of geriatric reactionaries that are too stupid, old, and corrupt to think creatively about solving problems

Maybe you can convince Arnold Schwarzenegger to pose for a robot body...

Consciousness in general is something that is probably going to have to be redefined in the next couple of years, as AI becomes more and more I than A. But I mean consciousness in the same sense that currently applies to organic beings.

I WANT to agree with you...but I can't (lol). Many politicians are lawyers, but still don't seem to know how to create laws and legislation. The US recently had a "businessman" in office and he made a lot of poor policy decisions because HIS experience with business was one of corruption and kickbacks. So, while I agree there should be some sort of workshop or required class for politicians, especially when they sit on specific committees involving economics or science issues, I'm not convinced that it would help all that much. Lots of legislators have an amazing amount of information at their fingertips and they STILL choose to be stupid.

Anything which is not mathematically impossible is inevitable, given a long enough timeline.

So the question then is, is there any mathematical constraint preventing ASI? Highly unlikely.

AI is basically a buzzword for easy money now its gonna keep coming

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I sometimes think any legislator interested in economics and proposing an economic policy, should have run or atleast worked in a business at some point in his/her life. Good intentions are not enough for something as important as policymaking. Practical experience is equally necessary.

Tax the profit, not the bots

First UBI, then "robot tax" once they are well established. Otherwise we just inevitably cripple our innovation

Look, feet are fine and all, but we can reach Singularity in an year tops if we appeal to furries.

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Is that something I posted

Must have been drunk lol

"Diabetes - Is it something you are born with? Do you catch it? Is it a disease? Do you make yourself get it? Do you change the state of your body to get there?"

Lol good try. Fucking idiot.

Wait, isn't the point to reach a post-scarcity society? That can only be done through AI you know.

Realistically, this won’t pass. But if they were going to do it properly they should increase taxes on sales of AI tools outside of the US. This would drive up the prices elsewhere and allow the US to stay ahead.

Exactly, these people have no creative mind whatsoever!

Never. You should not “blindly trust” anybody or anything. Everything has an agenda.

Now do feet,
that's where the fetish money is at.

With lots of practically free drugs to take

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well my iq is 145 so i beat you

/s

idk. the pace of developments in just these last two months, never mind the last two or three years has been insane. I really hope they calm down a bit and we can take stock a bit more, but it's hard to see that with all the money being put in right now. when do people see this stuff hitting a wall, because I think the short term developments are only going to keep coming