I mean yeah UBI will have to be a thing if no one can work. There’s just no other way around it. I have no clue how long it will take to be in a post-scarcity society, I mean it’s not insane to think AGI would get us to ASI in a very short timeframe. But it could also take decades.

I want to start researching alignment and security and seeing how the best minds out there are approaching those issues. It all kinda feels like it’s about to start getting out of hand fast tbh. I mean watching TTI evolve in a single year was mindblowing last year, and that along with ChatGPT is just the very tip of the iceberg.

Anyways as a futurist I think it’s kind of ridiculous to see all of this advancement and how we are on the cusp of the most incredible and epic era in human history— and start crying about muh digital art muh music. Just zero perspective or awareness of the much bigger picture. Curing cancer and heart disease and dementia and even depression or anxiety, reversing human aging and radically extending our lives, the ability to not have to work a soulless grind flipping burgers or being trapped in a cubicle or whatever. All of this is within our grasp right here in this century and we’re gonna abandon that because artists will have to get a different job for a while and then ultimately get paid to chill and create whatever they want? No fucking way