[ExI] Socialism

[Stuart LaForge]

On 2026-10-19 12:42, John Clark via extropy-chat wrote:

> Whatever a logical person's view of socialism may have been in the
> past, today we are in the foothills of the AI singularity so it's
> necessary to radically rethink one's position because, unless an AI
> decides to kill us all, a vast increase in socialism (but not
> communism) is most certainly coming. And it doesn't matter if you or I
> like it or not.

Here is a portion of an interview of Elon Musk by the editor of the 
economist:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8YEdm-ZTgT4

When the richest man in the world says that in a decade, money won't 
matter anymore and that the treasury will be writing everyone checks to 
live off of, paid for not by taxes, but by surplus production, I have to 
think that socialism is going to become a distinction without a 
difference from capitalism.

Stuart LaForge