RE: AI: A future without Firewood
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I only meant my reference to Marxism as a clarification of my own argument, not an assumption about yours, so I apologize if I was unclear there.
The root problem with all UBI schemes is that consumption can only follow production, so if someone is to receive UBI, someone else must produce first without recompense. AI is not able to do that.
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The Andre Yangs of the world think that this is precisely what AI and Automation will do. In other words, machines would be working our land, our factories, driving out cars, generating surplus. People would have "rights" to the surplus generated by the machines.
I think I should re-read the book, its been a while. But Yang released a book called "the war on normal people" that sold me on this UBI thing back in 2018. Since then I've read a few more on the subject. Utopia for realists, also a great book.