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I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Laureate and "Godfather of AI" on one of the most important topics of our time: AI risk, the future of work, UBI, and the path forward for humanity x superintelligence Unfortunately bluesky doesn't do long videos. Link below to our talk
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The evidence is in favour of basic income pro-freedom, pro-safety, pro-family, pro-entrepreneurship, pro-jobs, pro-market, pro-dignity That's what they'll learn
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BREAKING: Canadian Senate Bill S-206 for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income passed Second Reading and will be sent to Committee News Release: Senate Committee to Study Guaranteed Livable Basic Income ā Senator Kim Pate š¤©
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What happens when human labour no longer has economic value due to AI, and how does UBI fit in? We sat down with
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UBI in a Post-Labour Economy | David Shapiro, Dalibor Petrovic, Ken Yang
YouTube video by UBI Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX21Y9JcLsI
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This is also pretty mainstream centrist policy
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6 days ago
BREAKINGš: 2025 Report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty recommends a basic income floor to ensure everyone reaches at least the poverty line This is pretty reasonable.
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Step One: Fire the human workers and help degrade the total economy with both robotics and AI so now millions of out-of-work Americans donāt have money to spend buying shit on Amazon and also robots cost money but donāt spend money Step Two: ??? Step Three: Profit!
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12 days ago
"Canada's basic income superhero" š
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CBC The National on our team's work
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We're already seeing increasing reports of companies firing, or not hiring, because of AI. We all know what's coming. All paths to a bright future lead to UBI.
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We're hosting a Housing & LVT panel meetup in at SFU in Burnaby on Nov 27. Wanted to personally invite you but couldn't msg you on X anymore.
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19 days ago
With basic income, we're not just survivingāwe're building a future where everyone can thrive. That's the power of economic freedom.
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24 days ago
Basic Income will help us Build a Strong Canada.
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24 days ago
Basic Income will help us Build a Strong Canada.
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26 days ago
I believe AI will create massive wealth and potential for humankind to flourish. But no matter, what we can all anticipate that the gains will be extremely unevenāperhaps more than any technological revolution that came before. And this is true even if there isn't rapid and sudden mass job loss. š§µ
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30 days ago
Maybe listen to the Nobel Prize winner whose work made AI like ChatGPT possibleā¦ when he says UBI will be necessary?
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Many in the Canadian basic income movement brushed this off until as recently as 2 years ago, when chatGPT became the fastest product to 100M users Now everyone's talking about it
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Bernie dropped this video saying AI will wipe out the working class. āMillions of jobs will be eliminated. This is not science fiction. Itās already happening.ā The UBI movement has been saying this for years.
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@ubiworks.bsky.social
The Godfather of AI supports UBI. Everyone should.
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The Great Decoupling of - GDP vs. wages - Labour productivity vs. wages - and now job openings vs. market performance All are accelerated by automation š§µ
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BREAKING: GiveDirectly and Coinbase partner in new Basic Income Pilot, providing low-income New Yorkers with $12,000 in USDC (stablecoin pegged to USD)
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about 2 months ago
It's far better to tax land and natural resources than your work income. That's a vision that can lead us to a Star Trek instead of a Star Wars future, where progress benefits everyone, not just whoever bought everything up first.
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BREAKING: New Sept 2025 Abacus Poll shows Canadians ranked Guaranteed Basic Income as the top choice to address AI job loss
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with AI automating routines, an income floor lets us focus on what makes us humanācreating, caring, and connecting
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2 months ago
The data is clear: while cash reduces poverty right away, many of the strongest benefits only appear decades laterāhigher lifetime earnings, better education, healthier children.
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2 months ago
Three policies that will put humanity on track for greatness: implementing them would solve most problems we face today.
#UBI
#basicincome
#LVT
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2 months ago
Basic income addresses the root causes of crime. It reduces violence and drug/alcohol use.
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2 months ago
People keep talking about wealth tax without talking about the #1 source of wealth (and poverty) and what actually drives the cost of living READ THIS THREAD
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2 months ago
The whole wealth tax debate is missing a big point Not all wealth is the same. Stocks, gold, or yachts don't affect your cost of living. Land doesāwe all need it to live. No other wealth tax will restore affordability. This debate needs an update š§µ
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UBI Worksā Ken Yang recently interviewed Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of AI. Hereās a highlight video from the full interview, focusing on UBI, the models behind it, and the job losses AI could bring.
youtu.be/1cYHHcGsYTs?...
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Geoff Hinton āGodfather of AIā on Job Loss & UBI
YouTube video by UBI Works
https://youtu.be/1cYHHcGsYTs?feature=shared
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UBI Works
2 months ago
basic income unlocks the freedom to build something realāinstead of just surviving
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2 months ago
Really solid piece from
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2 months ago
Rogers used 1000+ call center agents to secretly train an AI that eventually would take their jobs they all got laid off anyone who sees this and still questions UBI isn't seeing the big picture
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2 months ago
Alaska has a successful model of UBI as a citizen's dividend: the Permanent Fund Dividend. But itās under attack by those who want to raid it, at the expense of future generations. We interviewed two of its fiercest defenders on what Canada can learn.
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Protecting Alaska's Common Wealth with Dr. Jack Hickel and Rick Halford | Common Wealth Canada
YouTube video by Common Wealth Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoGMwNuDTN4
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I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Laureate and "Godfather of AI" on one of the most important topics of our time: AI risk, the future of work, UBI, and the path forward for humanity x superintelligence Unfortunately bluesky doesn't do long videos. Link below to our talk
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2 months ago
Alaskaās Permanent Fund Dividend has been paying every resident a yearly income since the 1980s. We spoke with 2 of its fiercest defenders. "The commons are natural resources... The oil does not belong to the oil companies. It belongs to the people." ā Dr. Jack Hickel, son of Alaska's 2nd Governor
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This gap will widen with AI
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'Get a job' 'Work harder'
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I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Laureate and "Godfather of AI" on one of the most important topics of our time: AI risk, the future of work, UBI, and the path forward for humanity x superintelligence Unfortunately bluesky doesn't do long videos. Link below to our talk
2 months ago
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Canada's AI pioneer on UBI
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Canada's AI pioneer on UBI
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"A land value tax would rebalance the system. It would reward improvement, not hoarding. It would turn ownership into a responsibilityānot just an entitlement. And when paired with housing reform, it would help restore the liberal ideal that prosperity can be earned, not just inherited."
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Another one from our team I'm pretty proud of. This isn't even a contentious issue anymore. Still today, critics usually speak from ideology rather than evidence.
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Gerald Huff, Former Principal Engineer for Tesla was a huge UBI advocate. He understood that an AI-powered economy needs basic income to continue working.
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Basic income 'critics' usually ignore the data Giving people income security actually boosts employment and education
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No politicians ever talk about this Your wages are taxed more than that parking spot
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3 months ago
This is a Don't Look Up moment for AI most people are worried of being replaced what will it take for politicians to take this seriously?
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Most housing commentators/politicians actually actively avoid talking about this. Why? A healthy economy probably shouldn't be this heavily indexed in land as an investment or chasing rents We have better things to investment in. Small businesses, families, education, basic needs. Come on Canada
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There will come a day when these ideas are no longer suppressed in the political debateāthat as long as housing (i.e. mostly land value, the part that appreciates) is a prized investment, taxed less than work, it won't be affordable Read this thread
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Toronto real estate broker John Pasalis gave an absolute masterclass on Canada's housing crisis Hard truths most housing 'experts' / politicians avoid If Canada's future concerns you, read onš§µ
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This is just one story out of a much larger business trend The point of technology is to do more with less. Eventually, everything with nothing ā or no one. I suspect we'll be hearing much more of this in the coming years
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Rogers laid off 1000+ agents after hellish work conditions "they needed us to train the AI and were strategically plotting our demise of replacing us" "expected to work non-stop talking back to back calls like a robot" (12 sec breaks max) UBI is bargaining power and security.
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