UBI generally addresses this but the issue may be how to fund it.

It makes sense to tax something if it creates a negative externalty, or a cost on society outside the market transaction. So if you buy a gallon of oil, theres a societal cost of burning it, which makes sense to tax.

So whats the cost of automation, maybe a general sense of dread, lack of job security, maybe security concerns. If there is something there, then I'd favor a tax, otherwise UBI ftw

People do often use it like that. My comment was more to everyone else to think about the definitions they use.

Name three.

> Then when unemployment is up and people are desperate, the socialists can purpose a UBI

This is not a pleasant transition. Expect poverty, homelessness, starvation, high suicide rate.

And if you think UBI will save you, think again. You won't be affording luxuries on UBI. Capitalists won't be sharing the fruits of automation in some utopian wonderland. You'll be scrounging to survive while the rich live that life.

if you want to start from the bottom you could play the nandgame

https://www.nandgame.com/

Ah man, and here I thought I'd see something interesting in this sub.

This is a nice idea, but demonstrably untrue. There are many jobs beneficial to society that are not (sufficiently) profitable to commercial interests.

I don't like the way Kurzweil writes at all. I didn't really have trouble understanding any of his books that I've read (Age of Spiritual Machines, The Singularity is Near, and Fantastic Voyage), but I found them all to be tedious reads. Honestly, if you listen to a long-form interview with him, you'll probably get like 80%+ of what's in any of the books. What you'll miss out on is mostly his ideas around sex in the future, opinions that I could care less about.

That all said, if you want to make it through, the best thing you can probably do is to sit down and read it with an open web browser in front of you, and a notebook and pen beside you. It will take you quite a bit longer, but you start at Wikipedia with any term you don't understand, and keep working your way down with understanding until you don't care about the detail anymore. Writing stuff down will help you remember it and/or let you look up terms later, if you decide you'd rather just get the gist of any given section, first.

I only called one person a fox news npc? If I did it to two people I got my chains mixed up, it happens.

The government is a LOT better at collecting money than it is at spending it.

Get outta here with that "businessman" crap. Trump killed that bad idea forever.

Even Bernie doesn’t call everyone he disagrees with an idiot 🤣now you sound like trump

you’re literally calling everyone who disagrees with him a Fox News NPC lol.

That's possible. I hope OpenAI engineers can access "something behind the scenes" to analyse those strange conversations Sydney had, and figure out what got it to express emotions.

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I mean if dreams had just been invented as the result of thousands of years of human ingenuity, decades of explicit effort and with every sign that they'll see huge improvements over the next decade, I'm sure people would be at least a little interested in hearing about your dreams

Flooding /singularity may not be the best way to share them, though

I'm all for infrastructure spending. But if when we get to a point where it's like "the overall economy is so productive due to automation, that we can pay essentially the same to have a person go pursue whatever passions they may have, or have them work on an infrastructure project that will get completed whether or not humans are involved," then why force people to dig ditches, just so we can give them "a job."

In the short term, sure. Maybe a jobs guarantee will be good for displaced data entry office worker drones. But if you want to get there by forcing a company to choose a human or efficiency and a huge tax bill, and then using the tax money from the companies that choose efficiency to tell the displaced workers "You can put up these solar panels, or get nothing," then I think you're hurting both the economy and the displaced workers.

And anyone that does not agree with the hive mind, provides real data that disagrees with the hive mind, or offers a neutral position that accepts more than one possible point of view may be equally valid is placed under this label.

Im not making anything up about you? youre just repeating fox news talking points. a)being a politician is a fulltime job unfortunately b) youre citing wikipedia (dumb idea alone) while also not reading because IT LITERALLY DOES SAY THAT ON HIS WIKIPEDIA:

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After graduating from college, Sanders returned to New York City, where he worked various jobs, including Head Start teacher, psychiatric aide, and carpenter.[19]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders

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So yeah, Im not making up anything about you when I say you're an npc. You contradict your ownself lmao. Broken npc.

> where the Roman Empire never fell,

In the dimension I live in the Roman Empire changed its name to the Roman Catholic Church which didn't fall.

all these got damn rules. just don't click it! you don't have to read it.

people who say "we need censorship because I don't like this thing" are just MEH.

If its not injuring people, racism, sexism etc, just leave it be, man.

Why not use ChatGPT to explain anything you don’t get?

Where are these facts about Bernie actually working as real job? I literally looked it up and found nothing. And what happened to you calling me a Fox News npc? Does that not count as making stuff up about me? Douche hypocrite