On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Most countries already have a wealth tax. They print money, which devalues > their currency. > The closest that comes to being true is when you view cash as wealth rather than just about any other asset. That's why in my description of Property Money, the vast majority of cash is not taxed because the whole point of money in Property Money is to back "money" by the total wealth of the society. https://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2020/01/property-money.html So, no, what most countries have is a way to tax income of the vast majority of the population by permitting their employers to adjust prices at will while the employees are stuck trying to get raises from their employers to keep up with the prices their employers are charging. The problems with UBI are: > 1. It can't be high enough to live comfortably or else nobody would work. > Handled by Charles Murray's "In Our Hands" <https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-in-our-hands_105549266790.pdf> -- Charles Murray of the AEI whose understanding of welfare incentives is probably the best there is among the Washington DC thinktanks. 2. Not everyone has the same expenses. Handled by Charles Murray's "In Our Hands" <https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-in-our-hands_105549266790.pdf> -- Charles Murray of the AEI whose understanding of welfare incentives is probably the best there is among the Washington DC thinktanks. > 3. The people who need it most are generally the worst at managing their > money. They spend it all at once for stuff they want but don't need, and > then can't eat until their next paycheck. > Handled by Charles Murray's "In Our Hands" <https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-in-our-hands_105549266790.pdf> -- Charles Murray of the AEI whose understanding of welfare incentives is probably the best there is among the Washington DC thinktanks. Of course, > So we have benefits that can only be spent on food or health care or > whatever the government decides you need, > Which is exactly why we're nearing a Thirty Years War for freedom from an emergent theocracy that treats people as children but is so far removed from them that its treatment of adults as children evolves into a systemic insular contempt for the people that erupts in populist movements. > On Sun, Feb 9, 2025, 2:44 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yep, and Maoist tools like Friedman and Mises have ensured we'll never >> get Musk to recognize that he should be allying himself with Elizabeth >> Warren: >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BIyFjk0-YXG37dc1oKFmRXlHyTEUUN0Q38f1QIBQpiE >> >> He would have to: >> >> * free his mind and think about market-based property value assessment >> as the basis of the monetary system >> <https://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2020/01/property-money.html>, rather >> than the Federal Reserve. >> * give up on resisting an Unconditional Basic Income to privatize >> government simply because he wants to pay lower wages >> >> Both of the above policies would turn the US into an Elon Musk factory -- >> churning thousands of them out. >> >> But not even the e/acc folks are able to break free of their mental >> chains. >> >> On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> AI generated video keeps getting better. Here is an example from >>> OmniHuman-1 by ByteDance. Why do we even need human actors anymore? >>> https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/UBlqfPyCwq >>> >>> China has also ported DeepSeek to run on Huawei 910x accelerators that >>> are banned in the US, UK, and EU. V3 is priced at 1 yuan $0.13) per million >>> tokens of input and 2 per output through SiliconFlow. R1 is priced at 4 and >>> 16. >>> https://www.yahoo.com/tech/beginning-end-deepseek-goes-100-183100522.html >>> >>> China is investing heavily in building its own chips after US export >>> controls on NVIDIA and advanced lithography from Dutch ASML under US >>> pressure. Prior to 2020, US and Chinese scienctists worked together and >>> shared data freely, but both Trump and Biden put an end to that. >>> >>> You can see where this is going. China was way ahead of the US on >>> controlling Internet content to suppress dissent, and it is clear that the >>> rest of the world will follow. The bipartisan ban on TikTok and proposed >>> bill to ban Chinese AI like DeepSeek is just the beginning. It is clear >>> that social media content will be AI moderated and generated, run by tech >>> billionaires beholden to whoever is in power. >>> >>> It's not uncontrolled, self improving AI that we need to worry about. >>> The goal is not intelligence, it's modeling human behavior. All you need to >>> pass the Turing test or to create an upload of your mind is predicting your >>> outputs and carrying them out in real time. But the money is in predicting >>> what you will want and selling it to you. 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