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"The history of our Revolution will be one continued lie from one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the Earth and out sprang General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod—and henceforth these two conducted all the policy, negotiations, legislatures and war."

Why this cynical attitude? Perhaps he did expect it and he is now clearly and publicly stating it in a congressional record so something might be done about other whistleblowers.

Only if you think that capitalism and magic generative machines are compatible in any way. The need for UBI would only make sense if only certain classes of individuals can utilize AGI and others need to purchase their produce. How does such a world make sense, and why would anyone want to live in it? If a post-scarcity machine exists, why would tokens of scarcity need to exist - money - alongside it? Sounds like serfdom on easy-mode.

The government provides coupons that allow you to buy food which is remediated to the seller in dollars. The authority and funding to provide that service is something that voters can impact or change.

These are very different things, not "that already exists" at all.

If that's the situation, why would anyone explore the "right way to begin with" instead of what's quickest? The right way is the way the business accounts for, not what creates the best quality product and experience. Story as old as time.

Funny - with all this mind reading, youtube won't autocomplete the query "WEF mind reading" for me.

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director

It's the era, it's not you.

There's plenty of people out there who disagree with central bank's existence and policy. I don't know if I'd call a currency "stable" when it's lost 80% of it's own value since being introduced and can have new liquidity created with little due process. All currency is an illusion, it's just about which illusion makes you more comfortable.

It's all just money, and money isn't entirely rational to begin with.

A government's proprietary possession of computational power is analogous to it having weapons barred from public ownership, meaning they control a vector of violence than could be used against their citizens without counter-balance.

If someone else has the ability to weaponize information against you, your ability to understand reality is threatened. Without personal LLMs or other AI tools, my ability to analyze things like deepfakes, LLM-written text, or other reality-distortion assets is threatened.

It might sound hyperbolic but we're already hearing people talk about banning GPUs. I'm not trying to fall back into the past.