Universal Basic Income

A new round of over 100 million for the project of Sam Altman, just the latest of the philanthropists by interest. In addition to the well-known Bitcoin, there are currently about 25,000 cryptocurrencies in the world: newborn, half-dying, shipwrecked, renewed projects; altcoins, stablecoins, shitcoins: the immaterial bank has a token…

As many of you did, I followed the recent debt ceiling saga closely, and am relieved that we now have a compromise, of sorts. The House Republicans demanded a lot of things, most of which they did not get, but one area where they did prevail was in toughening work…

How This Cryptocurrency Plans to Disrupt the Global Financial System. Today, we are going to cover a project called “WorldCoin”, Co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman and Alex Blania in 2019. 🌍 The Rise of WorldCoin: Redefining Monetary Systems 🚀📈 The primary vision behind WorldCoin is to create a new global digital currency that would be distributed to…

Thirty people over two years will receive £1,600 each per month — Many on the left have pushed for UBI, or Universal Basic Income, over the last few years. Some countries have already tried it with mixed results. The most recent was Finland and it was dropped because the amount of money handed out wasn’t enough to challenge income inequality mostly due…

Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014. …

Universal Basic Income (UBI for short) has been making serious waves lately. If you’re not in the know, it’s this cool idea where everyone gets a regular cash payment, no questions asked. Some folks are all for it, thinking it could be the magic solution to wipe out poverty and…

Education is the shortest path to a better world. — In the solitude of my favorite armchair, I found myself entranced by the weathered pages of my old diary. As I turned the pages, the words etched in ink began to unravel like a hidden tapestry, revealing the tales and musings of a younger version of myself. A one liner…

Yes, a debt ceiling default would have instantly flushed the whole country straight down the hopper. But in the US, 500 poor Americans DIE from poverty every day because they didn’t get ANY help because they didn’t qualify because they don’t have kids, or are under age 65, or aren’t…

We all know about ChatGPT and the LLMs that are currently incredibly popular. It’s very impressive, an AI that can converse at a human level with it being difficult if not impossible to tell that it is really just a mathematical function. Background — Is an AI smarter than humans possible? The improvements in AI are exponential. If you…