AI and Universal Basic Income Discussion

One of the things that keeps coming up about AI is the concept of universal

basic income or what Elon likes to say,

universal high income, that we're all going to just have money for food and

money for housing and you're going to have this incredibly rich society

where there's so much money that no one really has to work anymore.

And so then you're going to have to find purpose doing something that you enjoy.

And that sounds crazy to people. That sounds so insane.

Like I'm going to have to figure out what to do with my life and I don't

need to work for money anymore.

Because if the government just gives everyone in the country half a

million dollars a year,

the idea that you can't figure out what to do with your time is really nuts.

That is a failure of our education system for sure.

Because we haven't taught people to be curious and to find

all these cool things and to find new people and go to interesting places

and experience life.

No, we've only told them about a bunch of numbers that you don't even

feel. You know, you don't even feel the numbers. The numbers go up, they go down.

You don't even notice it. But you feel everything as a person, everywhere you

go, all the new people you meet,

all the new experiences you have, you feel all of them. And

for whatever weird reason,

we've been tricked into thinking that

numbers are more valuable than the feelings. Numbers that you don't even feel.

Darrell Bock You've just nailed the most important message for humanity.

You've just nailed the most important message.

Feeling

is the only relevant thing to a human body. And it's the only thing. Robert Whaple

Yeah, we got stuck. We got stuck with numbers. We got stuck with numbers. As

soon as they figured out

how to make money and put it in banks and then now in the cloud,

as soon as they gave us a number to fixate on, we're like, oh, the number.

It's so weird.

It's such a weird thing that people haven't figured out

that that's a bad way to live.

And maybe that will be part of the process with this whole technological

innovation,

this crazy moment

in history that we're at right now with AI, where we really,

for the first time, have no

idea what the world's going to look like in 10 years. We just don't know.

But maybe this would be like a perfect,

the two things happen at the same time,

where enough people are saying, this is not what life is supposed to be about.

And then this comes along

and reworks all of our infrastructure,

and now we no longer need people to run things anymore.

OK, we can go back to being people?

That's the rosy,

rose colored glasses version of it, right?