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

[John Clark]

> *> Let’s toss out a number, 3000 bucks a month.  That is a good single
> digit, because there are (close enough to) 340 million proles in the USA,
> if we count non-citizens who would also collect the cash,*
>

*I'm a little surprised you want that too, but OK if you insist  *


*> we Americans wouldn’t need to worry about the nearly 40 trillion in debt
> the federal government has already borrowed, or even the fact that
> servicing the interest on that debt is dominating the federal budget.  That
> 40 trillion wouldn’t matter much since the fed would be adding a new 10
> trillion every year.  The original 40 would fade away into insignificance. *


*I couldn't have said it better myself.  *


*> We could do that strategy for about another decade or so.*


*We could continue with that strategy until the heat death of the
universe.  I remind you once again, this is not 2020, this is 2025. *


> *> **Elon described it during his brief ill-fated adventure as an amateur
> government economic advisor (the DOGE committee.) *
>

*Once upon a time I had some respect for that man, but no more. He's not
nearly as smart as I thought he was.*

*> Now we have the US congress pretending to shut down the federal
> government over a budget disagreement.,*
>

*And the Earth shaking paper "Attention Is All You Need" has never been
written so there's no need to change any of our pre-2017 ideas by the
teeniest tiniest amount… Oh wait…*

*> The fed needs to be Twitter-Xed: downsized to fit revenue*


*Spike **I'm curious. How do you feel about the budget for the National
Science Foundation, the only part of the federal government engaged in pure
scientific research, being cut by 56%? How do you feel about the fact that
one of LIGO's two gravitational wave observatories, (almost certainly the
one in blue state Washington not the one in red state Louisiana) is going
to have to be shut down permanently? Will this really make America great
again? *

*Oh well, we can at least take comfort in one thing, despite the shutdown
the $300 million renovation of the White House ballroom will continue on
schedule without interruption.     *

*John K Clark*

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