[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[John Clark]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2026 at 9:25 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*>> human labor is definitely going away*
>>
>

*> I don't think I agree with this.   Sure, we'll be able to get everything
> nice we have now, with near zero labor (our bots will get it for us) but
> humans tend to have an infinite desire, don't they?*
>

*Yes so AI, and Nanotechnology which will accompany it, will never be able
to satisfy all desires, we still won't be able to move faster than light or
travel to the past; but it can sure as hell provide a Universal Basic
Income that is large enough to keep tens of millions of Americans from
starving to death in the next few years, and it can provide free top notch
healthcare to all US citizens, just as every other rich industrial nation
on the planet has been doing for its citizens FOR DECADES, even though per
capita they spend MUCH less on healthcare than the US does.  *

*But as people are starving and blood is running in the streets a fossil
like He Who Must Not Be Named will still be stuck in the past and be
obsessed with the obsolete liberal versus conservative dynamic while
uttering clichés about the evils of welfare and asking stupid questions
like "where will the money come from?" The only good that will come from
this horror is that his ensuing unpopularity will make it more difficult
for him to achieve a third term.  *

*> Until all diseases are cured (including all types of aging), until there
> is no hunger anywhere on earth...*
>

*Both those problems can be solved by simply making sure atoms are arranged
in the correct pattern.  *

*> until we are all taking trips to the stars, until we have an infinite
> amount of phenomenal artwork experiences... to name just as few ininitely
> large tasks, ...*
>

*After it becomes clear that the purpose of life can not be work, **AI is
not going to be able to answer the question "is existence better than
non-existence?" Each individual is going to have to find their own answer
to that. And some may not like the answer they come up with, so I wouldn't
be surprised if the suicide rate goes up. As for me I don't care if the
universe thinks I'm useless because the universe has its opinion and I have
mine. *

* John K Clark*
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