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The Limits of Artificial Intelligence
In the limit, what I think we're imagining is a world where... We're just producing a ton of great stuff that is better than the human stuff and people are losing their jobs. So we've got a labor disruption, but we're not talking about any other kind of political catastrophe or cyber apocalypse,. much less AGI destroying everything. Then I think we just need a different economic assumption and ethical intuition around the value of work. UBI is one solution to this. The universal basic income. You shouldn't have to work to survive. This is like God handing us the perfect labor-saving device. It can build anything you could possibly want. No more resource extraction wars over sunlight