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

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
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> …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…

 

GOOD!  Then the fed doesn’t need our paltry 5 trillion it gets from taxes and tariffs.  All that can be borrowed, we can go ahead with the UBI, they borrow 15 trillion instead of a paltry 10 trillion a year, and since it is 2025, it won’t matter for it can continue until the heat death of… um… of… until the… death of… oh wait, 2025, OK cool, no worries.

 

> Elon …(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…

 

I heard Musk’s net worth is now estimated at over half a trillion dollars.  Damn, that is a lotta clammage.  He must be really dumb.

 

> 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%?

 

I don’t like those cuts, one bit.  I will not like it even more when the other 44% is cut, not because it isn’t needed (it is needed) but because investors are recognizing the risk of loaning their money to the US government.

 

>…How do you feel about the fact that one of LIGO's two gravitational wave observatories… is going to have to be shut down permanently? Will this really make America great again?

 

No.  I am a huge fan of LIGO and will be sorry to see it go.  If we can’t balance the federal budget somehow, the other LIGO observatory will soon shut down as well.

 

>…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

 

It sure will!  But why?  Because that 300 million dollar ballroom is not dependent on federal funding.

 

So regardless of phony government shutdowns and federal budget deficits, nuclear war and whatever else happens, the ballroom and renovations continue.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

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