He was suggesting the people could be given "compute" which they then decide how to use. Though I don't deny this could be a loop-hole to create value in something like WorldCoin, my hope is that it would change the considerations of the people who have it.
When we think of UBI, we don't often think of money as the resource, but rather as the thing people use to buy things.
If that conversation changed to providing a resource which the person could use to earn, does that make the recipient more of a farmer or fisherman, rather than just being given a fish.
We rarely think of UBI as cash payment as something that the recipient would use as an allocation to create something for themselves.
Though I don't think this is a simple answer, I'd like us to think in these terms more, and Sam Altman has recently opened this window to my thinking.