My only qualm with UBI is that it needs to be Universal in the non-discriminating sense. I don't see how that could perform better than a system that at least attempts to discriminate between good and bad actors. Not to underestimate the difficulty of that task, but I feel as long as we are testing out Unconditional BI in the real world, which is great - we shouldn't miss out on experimenting with Conditional Basic Income as well. Even if you do not manage to catch all the bad actors, it could still be worthwhile improvement over otherwise. The good folks at Ethereum and other crypto based decentralized platforms have been working on useful tools like decentralized identity, smart contracts, tokens that can hopefully make this practical.
So glad that this is happening. It is really inspiring to see the knowledge sharing spirit become the expected default in the community. This is only going to be great for progress in the field!
While may not agree on how an alternate voting system should work, I am glad that we can finally acknowledge the system we have in place desperately needs fixing.
my theory is that Elon does not truly believe that AI poses an immediate threat but that he needs to spin it that way because people are more open to the idea of augmenting themselves (neural lace) in face of an existential threat, whereas without that it would more likely be spun by the media as being unnatural, "playing god" and all that jazz
i'm curious as to whether it is more effective for an individual to hold a contribute-as-you go style to philantrophy vs a make-money-first-then-donate strategy like gates did. Given that most people aren't going to be billionaires, I would guess the former but maybe someone who has looked at the data can provide some insight.