If I remember correctly, Sam Altman's idea of UBI was people buying stocks and trading them.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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I thought Thatcher on Acid was a band from the 80s, not the EAies' approach to economic policy
Let me sell mine for bread/rent
unbelievable
Can I use it for groceries?
Is this the guy that kindly asked for 7 trillion? Of course he doesn't want UBI, because he wants to vacuum up all the money to dump it in his robot girlfriend.
I love the way these idiots keep incrementing the number on their ChatGPT fantasy as if it's a sufficient image of the future and it's going to get everyone on board. Complete failure of imagination, don't try to picture any actual use for it or anything, just make it... more.
People without an imagination trying to imagine what a prosthetic imagination would look like
That’s also why they get so excited about the current chatbots.
"I know not with what technology GPT-6 will be built, but GPT-7 will be built with sticks and stones" -Albert Einstein probably
@200fifty @Amoeba_Girl "GPT-11 will be built entirely out of sound waves from the sustain" - Nigel Tufnel, probably
gpt 7 is a beach hut
With a face drawn on it
Just wait til they figure out what number comes after 7. IOS is up to like what, 20? There's a lot of numbers they have to learn before they can compete with the big boys.
The greatest version number war of our age is between Chrome and Firefox, nowadays both of which get a major version bump around once a month. Firefox is on 125 and Chrome is on 124.
Seems ridiculous since a full version updates used to mean something
They're probably some sort of semver now.
Odd take, but if we zoom out,...
access to internet, and functioning computing is increasingly important for everyone. It obviously doesn't rank about healthcare, safe housing, and foundational income.
nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though
if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that
nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though
if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that
Extremely quotable and vastly applicable.
This post may be the epitaph of our civilization.
I'm speaking for myself, not him. People need internet and such, but it's not the first thing on the list
Yeah but has 'lack of compute' ever been an issue for people online? Really weird to do a 80/90's university style supercomputer computing time per department distribution style system in 2030.
Usable fibre broadband is part of the universal service obligation for British Telecom landlines now
Thanks Sam!
I'm gonna use my compute to break the encrypting that guarantees that everybody gets an equal slice an then the compute is all mine! MINE!!! My next step is going to be autotuning a proper evil villain laugh.
Turns out my slice of the "compute" is worthless and his is worth billions.
Is this the onion or
Instead of Universal Basic Compute, where everyone gets a slice of GPT7’s compute and is about as useful to the average person as a waterproof mop, there should be Universal Basic Income, where everyone gets a guaranteed stipend so they aren’t required to work in order to have a quality existence, and would, to the average person, be about as useful as clean air.
I will be so happy when we stop hearing about this "AI" nonsense for literally everything. The only good thing is that at least there are less wankers trying to throw "block chain" into everything
they are the same wankers
Ubi is meant to provide people with basic survivability in an increasingly automated world.
I cannot imagine a worse idea than putting basic survivability in the hands of a shareholder bound corporation.
Instead of Universal Basic Income, everyone should be given a small stipend to pay tribute to I, Sailor Sega Saturn. I demand tribute!
so when you can't get the retail and/or enterprise markets to give you enough money to get dem gainz you were hoping for on your grift, ah yes naturally it should be government money that bails you out. got it.
Hey it worked for that other fascist guy
These people are so or of touch with reality it's cringe.
This is part one of enshittification: You give your service away to get users, and cater to their wishes. Then once they're hooked you can do whatever you want because they can't leave.
Just more technofeudalism from a technofeudalist.
it's more insidious: it's not giving it away. it's subverting the "hmm UBI is good actually" argument and saying that people should receive compute instead of money, with a quiet "oh and naturally someone will have to pay us for providing them that compute"
not that I'd bet against them pulling a lock-in move down the line as well (or upsells or any number of other exploitation plays), mind you
Is he trying to reframe the concept of a free trial as if it's some altruistic thing?