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

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of John Clark via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book (UBI)

 

On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM Tara Maya via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

> UBI will fail

 

>…If you're right about that then the human race is doomed.  I have no idea what you do to make a living but whatever it is in the next year or two a machine will be able to do it much MUCH better than you can. Without UBI what is going to keep you from starving to death?

 

 

Well-planned preparation will prevent some from starvation.

 

>…That's OK, UBI should be like air, something you don't value or even think about unless you are unable to get any.  

 

Don’t worry, you won’t get any.

 

But there are ways to punch thru the Singularity as a bio-entity, maybe.  This is important, for an AI might be smart enough to figure out how to upload humans, but I wouldn’t bet on that either.  It requires that it is technologically possible (I think and hope it is, but might not be) and that the AI wants to do that with us (it think and hope it will, but it might not.)

 

Is it possible to punch thru the Singularity as a bio-entity?  We don’t know.  I think and hope it is, but it might not be.  My strategy: think it out, have some kind of plan, even if quite implausible (this is where I am now.)

 

spike

 

 

 

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