But less satisfying than the second season of Galavant.

The real question is what, if any, resources will be available beyond the basic necessities.

Most forms of entertainment want you to pay for them in some way.

Advertising won’t be an option if the government is directly providing necessities. You have no income, so you are not a potential customer.

No subscriptions, you have no money to spend.

So, options will be limited to available resources and activities that require no resources. E.g. you could meditate, do pushups, or interact socially with your immediate peer group.

Hopefully at least some form of enlightenment will be provided. This may include TV lounges, ping pong tables, sports, etc. All fairly low budget.

Your arguments apply equally to health care, social security, Medicare/Medicaid, etc.

A lot of these programs are already underfunded to the point that they are expected to collapse in the next decade.

These are programs that are aimed squarely at helping the lower and middle classes.

And all is takes is the mention of raising taxes to change election outcomes.

No.

The people who would be expected to pay for it are the same people you expect to enact it.

Try looking at it from the perspective of the people you expect to pay for it, then ask yourself what they are likely to do.

I highly doubt the government is just going to start handing out cash.

It's not how welfare is handled today, and today's welfare programs will be the model any future benefits are based off of. With the realization that there will be a very strong incentive to find cost savings as the scale and scope increases.

Today's welfare systems uses food stamps (EBT), WIC, subsidized housing (I've seen as low as $25/month, all utilities included), and even clothing vouchers for kids going to school.

The natural progression for cost saving is not giving cash instead of necessities, it's using economies of scale. The military provides models for cheaply housing and feeding large numbers of people, and I believe that is the direction government will move to save money.

Alternatively, UBI could be in the form of goods, not money.

People could be moved into massive dormitories, eat in cafeterias, and be issued basic clothing.

Population would then be centered within these dormitories and be very high density while being much more cost efficient for the government.

It shouldn’t, but raising property taxes will create a huge backlash at the ballot box.

I don’t disagree.

But if it comes down to a question of survival and it’s too late for other options, this is the fail safe.

It will cause problems, including acid rain. It will have free riders, it will reduce food production due reducing sunlight, and it will disrupt global weather patterns.

Volcanos have been doing this periodically for Earths entire history.

Mt. Tambora’s eruption in 1816 lowered global temperatures by ~1^• F for a year.

Anything done by humans would have to be done in a more controlled manner.

Cost/benefit analysis.

Which option is worse will depend on the extent of the climate change.

Pumping sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere could be done unilaterally, cheaply, and quickly.

It’s a last ditch effort, but it’s results would be immediate and global.

The coming of Rap Man

The subject being discussed is very narrow, text to video.

AGI was not the subject under discussion.

It’s going to be whatever the people take the time and effort to make.

Some will be good, some will be bad.

Just like everything else on YouTube.

The chips from the one chip challenge taste like dirt.

Would not recommend.

Also: they give me horrible hiccups, which is not a good thing when trying to keep a straight face.

Because we know that there are other options.

All anyone has to do is look towards Israel to see them in practice.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4uotjB6XdRw

For some reason this made me think of the sword Wayfinder from the Book of Swords.

It could show you the way to anything that was or could be. Even immaterial or subjective things like love or the perfect woman.

The sword was infallible, but it always pointed out the most difficult path.

That depends on what I’m accelerating and how fast I’m making it go.

If I push a piece of rebar to relativistic speeds, it won’t really matter which direction I point it.

Theranos?

I don’t think that ended well for the company founder?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/hyperloop-latest-innovation-pretty-much-series-of-tubes-180955735/#:~:text=The%20hyperloop%20was%20originally%20proposed,startups%E2%80%94seized%20on%20the%20idea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop

> The Hyperloop, in the initial form proposed by Musk, differs from vactrains by relying on residual air pressure inside the tube to provide lift by aerofoils and propulsion by fans.

Earlier tube systems used pneumatics and had speeds closer to 60mph.

You might dislike the man, but a lot of his technology and ideas are changing the world.

Burying your head in the sand and denying the technology and ideas is no different than being a flat Earther.

This sounds like a great first problem for AGI/ASI

If the task is beyond human intelligence, make solving one of the fundamental purposes of the AGI/ASI.

The more the AI grows, the better it gets at alignment.

They tried to charge me $45 for a hamburger and fries in Nassau.

~$17 in Freeport, and it included a soda.

It’s also how a lot of real advances have begun.