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AI => automation => unemployment => basic income

That basic argument makes sense to me but the leap to say that AlphaGo proves automation is accelerating doesn't.

Go is one of many task-specific AI's. It's not clear that it implies anything about generalized AI (which most experts agree is still very far off) or the rate at which task-specific AI's are developed.



Basic income = food stamps. Enjoy being a worthless loser for the rest of your life.


Better a worthless loser than a rampaging radical or starved loser.


It's wishful thinking to think that men can be reduced to this and that an eventual revolution will not ensue. A new political and social order must be found. "Men were not meant to live like this," people will eventually agree.




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