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= Unconditional basic income
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Unconditional basic income is <Ciro Santilli>'s ultimate non-<transhumanist> technological dream: to reach a state of technological advancement and distribution of resources so high that everyone gets money for doing nothing, enough for:
* basic survival needs: food, housing, clothes, hygiene, etc.
* two children to keep the world going. Or immortality tech, but is harder and borderline transhumanist :-)
* high speed computer and Internet

Once a person has that, they can <OurBigBook.com>["learn, teach"] and create whatever they want. Or play <video games> all day long if they wish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots[Ciro Santilli will not live to see this], and is content with helping it happen faster by increasing the efficiency of the world as. And having at least two well educated kids to carry on the project after he dies :-)

Technologies which would help a lot towards unconditional basic income, and might be strictly required required are:
* <artificial general intelligence>
* affordable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid_robot[humanoid robots] with human-like energy efficiency and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-weight_ratio[power-to-weight ratio].

  This is even less likely than <AGI> due to the <Moore's law>[end of silicon Moore's Law] and at the start of the Genome's Moore's law: information doubles, small sizes halve, but macroscopic mechanical artifacts stay the same.

  <brain-computer interfaces> are pretty certain to happen however after <Ciro Santilli> dies.

So in the worst case we can just grow brainless bodies and replace the cavity hole with a computer that controls the body, possibly with high level decisions coming from a remote building-sized genetically engineered biological AGI brain.

Of course, it is all about costs. A human costs about http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1808049,00.html[130k 2010 USD/year]. So how cheap can we make the AGI / robot human equivalent / year for a given task?

AGI + humanoid robots likely implies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_takeover[AI takeover] though. It would then come down to human loving bots vs human hating bots fighting it out. It will be both terrifying and fun to watch.

AGI alone would be very dangerous, in case it can get control of our nuclear arsenals through software zero days or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_%28security%29[social engineering]. Although some https://www.quora.com/Could-a-group-of-hackers-break-into-military-networks-and-launch-or-detonate-nuclear-missiles[claim that is unlikely].

Humanity's best bet to achieve silicon AGI today is to work on: <Ciro's 2D reinforcement learning games>.

By <Charles Bukowski> mentioned e.g. at https://tatyanany.medium.com/slavery-was-never-abolished-it-was-only-extended-to-include-all-the-colors-6ca21d586e7e[]:
> Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

Bibliography:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bldeaDRWJYcLecture 24: Unemployment, Re-employment & Income Security by Ian Shapiro (2019)

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TODO exact lyrics for copy paste? There seem to be several variants, and I don't have the patience to transcribe. Close enough: https://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/e/easystreet.html[]. Except that with UBI there won't be a:
> guy that you can hire to plant trees so you can have shade
because most people will have something better to do. That's where <artificial general intelligence> comes in!
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Universal basic income

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