I guess I'm in group three but my take was more along the lines of "people working less and spending more on leisure time is the real goal, yeah?" Especially inasmuch as it was being funded by an AI mogul, we're trying to figure out if giving out slices of AI employment productivity to the people displaced by it can be a humane path to d…
I guess I'm in group three but my take was more along the lines of "people working less and spending more on leisure time is the real goal, yeah?" Especially inasmuch as it was being funded by an AI mogul, we're trying to figure out if giving out slices of AI employment productivity to the people displaced by it can be a humane path to downscaling a human workforce without destroying their quality of life, right??
That seemed to be Zvi's conclusion - UBI works for its original purpose (a backup when the economy no longer has jobs for people) but not for the various other goals that have been added to it.
Politically, UBI can only work if those other goals are tangible and effective. UBI for post-scarcity isn't needed now, so even if the future requires it we cannot pass it now, given those results.
I guess I'm in group three but my take was more along the lines of "people working less and spending more on leisure time is the real goal, yeah?" Especially inasmuch as it was being funded by an AI mogul, we're trying to figure out if giving out slices of AI employment productivity to the people displaced by it can be a humane path to downscaling a human workforce without destroying their quality of life, right??
My more extensive description for this is in part III of: https://scpantera.substack.com/p/age-of-eye
That seemed to be Zvi's conclusion - UBI works for its original purpose (a backup when the economy no longer has jobs for people) but not for the various other goals that have been added to it.
Politically, UBI can only work if those other goals are tangible and effective. UBI for post-scarcity isn't needed now, so even if the future requires it we cannot pass it now, given those results.