When AI boosters talk about universal basic income to excuse all of the jobs they claim they can eliminate, ask:

“Then why are you working on AI, and not on universal basic income?”

If you are a journalist in this space and you don’t ask this every time UBI comes up, you are not doing your job.

@maxleibman

I think real people understand that the words that come out out of their mouths are just things that are used to placate people.

Such ideas should be given the same weight as hyper loop