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The speaker is uncertain whether AI evidence that a policy is inefficient and makes people miserable would create enough political will to implement UBI.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“This gets back to kind of this question of mistake theory versus conflict theory in politics. If we know with certainty because the AI tells us that this is just a stupid way to do everything, is less efficient,”
“makes people miserable,”
“is that enough to get the political will to actually do the UBI or not?”Play from 2:18:37Report a misattribution
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