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my attitude is less "no it can't" than "i don't want it to" and "when it does the result is unpleasant"

Step 1: AI takes everyone's jobs Step 2: ?????? Step 3: UBI!

Since the LLMs were trained on content from about everyone who has ever posted on the internet, shouldn't we all be getting dividends from whatever money this makes?

No look, AI is probably going to put a lot of people out of work, and the electricity costs of the compute involved to get that done will cost way more than just paying those people to do those jobs. GET WITH THE FUTURE.

alternatively we can figure out that AI is bad for jobs, bad for the environment, bad for neighborhoods, bad for humanity in general, and then just not fucking use it or allow it. remember how asbestos was assumed to be a miracle material, and then it got super banned? we can do that shit with AI

I can't imagine why I should assume it's better about anything else, especially when even the people making it have admitted it structurally *cannot* be made to stop making shit up

let's say I've never heard of you until today, what country are you talking about potentially having UBI in

Exactly. How else would you describe Trump's $5K check to every adult American?

You can't work out anything because in that scenario nothing will work the same.

-water while you hunt for a new job/retrain for a new field. Make-work programs are an easier sell but nobody’s trying to make those happen either…

You're literally doing Solar Opposites bit lol bsky.app/profile/numb...

no it can’t tho

The future should turn to the camera and say its the same kind of communist I am.

okay marxism dot social

I gotta disagree with a lot of this. Fundamentally power comes from control of Force Production Information We had the most gains in liberty when the world wars trained masses of men to use force, production needed organised labour and information was harder to centrally control.

Nah

You mean not letting people starve because there's no work for them is insane?

My local newspaper still hasn’t reported on a fatal interaction with police where the suspect was killed & 2 officers injured. I only know about it because I have a LLM running on a graphics card on a PC in my basement & transcribing & searching police radio. Journalists could use things like that.

Someone needs to be willing to pay for the output, too. Are there that many people currently willing to pay for journalism who are offering to keep doing so for the AI version?

"There's never going to be UBI" Not with that attitude.

The people pushing gen-AI adoption are never going to consent to paying higher taxes to fund UBI, you idiot. They created gen-AI so they wouldn't have to pay their workers. You think they're going to pay laid-off workers?

Sure, ubi is great, in theory, but republicans are throwing people off of Medicaid. Realistically, I don’t see UBI happening when SS faces a shortage in 7 years.

UBI concentrates power and neglects the contributions that these AI companies are stealing. Let’s start by giving consent, credit, and fair compensation for their works, imho a much more democratic framework.

What I came to say. It’s true

You gotta be smoking massive amounts of crack to look around today and go "yeah we're definitely getting UBI"

Well the issue won't be forced until mass unemployment leads to riots and a few tech people being killed and eaten by angry mobs, historically that's how it goes. Then it's 50:50 we get UBI or techno-fascism.

Maybe you found the answer to the problem. We all become farmers. Oh wait. Automation and big machines already took over the vast amount of farming jobs a long time ago.

So ❤️ to Hailey, but it's a mistake to steer the conversation to UBI at all. The context I've seen others discuss is not that AI is reducing the overall amount of work. It is very much shifting things around, and unfortunately that requires people shifting with it. www.instagram.com/reels/DcR1nY...

We’ve demonstrated an inability to handle “eggs cost one dime more per egg,” if AI starts taking jobs in any meaningful way somebody is going to convince an AI to drop a Tomahawk on a data center

It's less of a long shot in individual states than it is in the US as a whole. There are also other countries besides the US.

what’s extremely concerning is the psychosis people who are delusional about where AI is going seem to exhibit.

Because it can't you dumbass. How can you be this stupid? Oh, right, because AI damaged your brain and gave you psychosis...