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You are working with a contradiction - you think AI will be hugely missed moactfull( but people will put no more effort into it than they put into watching TikTok.

the correct price point is like price of a car. That’s the other recent invention that was important. That buys you a lot of compute.

We already successfully run torrents and crypto very democratically, and they take more than £200

Second, you don’t need to use it 24/7, you need it On a timeshare basis. Cryptobros may plausibly figure out anonymous secure timeshare on a distributed cluster made up of random desktops

Finally the government could run it if they decide it’s important enough - after all they run the power grid, roads; etc.



> the correct price point is like price of a car.

>> By 2020, with 15% of 7.5 billion people projected to own an automobile [0]

15% in 2020, so let's be nice and assume 17% by 2024. Let's be super nice and assume an additional 10% can afford a car, but choose to not buy one for some reason. What happens to the other 73% of people? (5,475,000,000 human beings)

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/World-population-and-the...


> What happens to the other 73% of people?

Does a baby own a car? Half of all people are children or are in a care home! Huge misuse of statistics!

What about a wife using a husband's car? What about people who lease a car? They don't own it, so won't show up in your number. What about a taxi or rental car?

Again, when transformational technology appeared for transport - car - the government organised public transport. When books and educations became important, we organised public libraries. The idea that it's either UBI or we leave people to the wolves betrays a lack of thought.


They take the AI bus or subway.


Where are they taking the AI bus or subway to? AI automation allows a few million humans to replace the billions that it used to take to make the movies, music, software, textiles, pick the rice and corn, etc, right?

Human productivity will have gone up another 1000x, in just the next 20 years, right?

What are the extra people going to do? We certainly can't just give them free stuff, can we? That would be against our beliefs!

Oh snap, capitalism was so successful that we are near post-scarcity society, good thing our politics are totally ready for that.




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