More than 200 cities and counties around the United States are experimenting with guaranteed-income programs
#UBI #Basicincome https://
wsj.com/politics/polic
y/governments-across-the-u-s-are-handing-residents-cashno-strings-attached-7f602ea6?st=64v2n4hz3358c6q
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US Cities Experiment with Guaranteed Income Programs
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AI Disruption and Future Job Creation: Human Adaptation Strategy
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Yeah, it will be short term pain, and I expect hate for AI to only continue to get worse. But I believe humans, as always, will adapt and create new jobs. It’ll be a new world so it’s hard to say exactly what those jobs will be — but there will always be work to be done.
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Simon-Ehrlich Wager: Technology Resources and Economic Future
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Context of the wager https://
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Invisible Productivity Gains from Automation Reshaping Employment
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The massive productivity improvements from automation (and resulting changes in employment) that you don’t see, but on which the modern world depends. From Conway’s “The Material World”
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USC Blockchain Conference: Crypto, RWOs, and Internet’s Future
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Join me for the @USC_VEDA Southern California Blockchain Conference this week. I will be doing a fireside chat on Wednesday 3/20 to talk about crypto, RWO, and the future of the internet. More info: https://
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Automation Prioritizes Profit Over People and Planet
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Every job that can be automated or replaced will be where GDP or productivity with and shareholder value is prioritized. Period. When have you heard the phrase, “we can save money and time with X job done with AI but we care more about people and planet?”
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X Risk Community Mobilizes Against AI Deepfakes and Job Displacement
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“X risk community” has adapted to this by telling the normies to sign petitions against AI doing deepfake porn and making everybody unemployed
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Defining AGI: Surpassing Humans in Economically Valuable Tasks
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The def I'm familiar with is: AGI = "an autonomous system that surpasses human in most economically valuable tasks." For "economically valuable tasks" I like to look at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics index of occupations: https://
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Stanford Digital Economy Lab Launches Under Erik Brynjolfsson
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February 2020: Digital economy scholar Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn joined @StanfordHAI as a senior fellow and launched the Stanford @digeconlab
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FranceIA Hub: European leadership in GenAI within 5 years
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[#Article] FranceIA Hub: how to make France and Europe leaders in GenAI within 5 years? https://actuia.com/actualite/hub-france-ia-comment-faire-de-la-france-et-leurope-des-leaders-de-la-genai-dici-5-ans/
… #AI #artificialintelligence #GenAI