buybuydandavis comments on The progressive case for replacing the welfare state with basic income - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 23 September 2016 04:37:48PM 0 points [-]

Wrong. This proposition has never been tested before. Things were not a threat to be smarter, cheaper, better before.

Humans have dominated the world through their intelligence. It's the most powerful factor of production.

You need a stronger argument than "intelligence is just the same as all other factors of production".

Comment author: Lumifer 23 September 2016 07:08:43PM 0 points [-]

"Cheaper and better" existed before, so you are focusing on "smarter". So what is that which is smarter than humans? Point it out to me.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 02 October 2016 10:27:07AM 0 points [-]

Computers are already better than us in a ton of intelligence tasks, and that list is only going to get longer and longer.

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