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

[John Clark]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*>it was in Jan 2019 when a government person told us when the Singularity
> would happen: twelve years. *


*Sounds like a pretty smart government person.  *

*> Over half that time has passed, so we now have less than six years until
> the end of the world, and we STILL don't know how we are going to pay for
> it. *


*I can tell you exactly how to get the money to pay for UBI, borrow it.
Borrow it even if the interest rate is extraordinarily high because, thanks
to the singularity, a dollar today is far FAR more valuable than a promise
for a dollar in 6 years. In 6 years the person you borrowed the money from
probably won't even care if you pay them back or not because the amount is
too trivially small to worry about.  *

*John K Clark*



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