[ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book

[John Clark]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> * > The US government has already run out of other people’s money and is
> now having to borrow other people’s money*
>

*The very concept of "money" is about to be radically changed and so is the
concept of "the US government". *

 > *By the time that fund is paid off in about 9 years....*


*9 years?! We are now living in the age of AI and 9 years is a virtual
geological age. I don't feel comfortable making an economic prediction
about what things will be like in 9 months, never mind 9 years.  *

*I take that back, I do feel comfortable making one economic prediction, in
9 years the total productivity of this planet will be ENORMOUSLY greater
than it is now. But I make no prediction about what will be controlling
that astronomically huge newly generated wealth, I hope not but it's
entirely possible that in 9 years events will have proven that Eliezer was
right.*

*> I live in a city which has a version of UBI: our local food bank is well
> stocked and sustained by volunteers.*


*I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about everybody automatically
receiving enough money to have a comfortable upper middle-class lifestyle.
And yes if I made that suggestion a few years ago you would be entirely
justified in calling it idiotic, but these days not so much. I'm talking
about the impending Singularity, and that renders old style political
debates obsolete. We are rapidly entering an era where a machine can
perform ANY job better than ANY Human, so if biological humans are to
survive, what is the alternative to UBI?*

*John K Clark *
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