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

[Giulio Prisco]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM John Clark via extropy-chat
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> On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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>> > John, so where have you been, what kindsa stuff interests you these days, etc?  All healthy and good in your home?  Last I heard Florida?  No hurricane injuries or serious fatalities in that, ja?  You are following Eliezer as plenty of us are, I see.  Clarification on the term following: reading about what he is doing, not necessarily reading his book, following as in following the news on him, not necessarily reading his site.  You sound not as skeptical as he is perhaps on the future of AI nor the fate of humanity, nor am I.
>> What the heck else?  New hobbies or anything?  John we like the human side of you as well as the internet side.
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> Spike, I appreciate your warm welcome back message. I'm thinking of moving to Arizona but right now I am still in Florida and I'm still pretty healthy for an old fart. I retired a few years ago from my job as an electrical engineer and so I have become a "gentleman of leisure", in other words a bum, but a happy bum who is still lucky enough to be able to maintain a comfortable lifestyle.

This is what I should do, but I keep accepting paid gigs, always
promising myself that this is the last.

I don't think biological humans will be around in 50 years, perhaps
not in 5. However I am more optimistic than Eliezer, but then anybody
who is not certain of impending oblivion would be.
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Hers is a biological human who definitely intends to be around in 5
years. The universe may decide otherwise, but I'll die trying!

> On that note I'd like to ask the people around here a question, what is your opinion of Universal Basic Income (UBI),  a government-provided, unconditional, and periodic cash payment to all residents, regardless of their work status or income? Just a few years ago the idea would've seemed absurd but now if there is going to be any hope of biological humans surviving I think something like it is going to have to be instituted in the next 10 years, probably in the next 5. The stunning advance in AI during the last three years has rendered moot many (but not all) of the political arguments that seemed so important the last time I was on this list, and that's why I decided to rejoin it.
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Without UBI, the masses of humans made jobless and unemployable by AI
will starve. So I agree, we need UBI, the sooner the better.

>  John K Clark
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