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> it could be used to further science, further our understanding, just in some way for the greater good

Perhaps voice your concern with your elected government representative?

Unless of course, you think your effort is useless.

> wow, pennies on the dollar and yet there’s a trillionaire

You want whole dollars?

Says who? You?

Perhaps you should inform your elected government representatives.

> Oh my god I can just FEEL the growth! It's going to trickle down any second now! Any second!

Your 401k/pension’s passive index ETF at Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab definitely went up in value.

There’s your trickle down.

> Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?

No

> How on earth could "giving people money" lead to a lower quality of life for them?

Prices will increase more than the UBI money you give them.

You saw what happened during COVID pandemic and UBI stimulus checks?

High cost of living today is precisely because of UBI.

> OK, I'll bite - what would a failure of UBI look like?

Higher taxes for anyone earning over $100k

Higher cost of living, and lower quality of life for anyone earning below $60k

Politicians and corporations earn billions in profits on UBI distribution fees, and incentive spending/automatic deposit programs (contribute your UBI directly to health insurance and it’s tax exempt!)

> I get what you’re saying but in the last 20 years can you think of any mass protest that accomplished anything substantial?

Nope.

Even the Jan 6 one didn’t really change our quality of life. And damn, that was a protest, by American standards.

> I think you underestimate how many people actually care about mass shootings.

Less than 1% of the population, that’s for sure.

You remember the last protest about school shootings? Neither do I.

> Are there going to be bans on things that could be used to aid in school shootings next?

No.

Because us Americans don’t care about school shootings.

I’d rather the government invest in S&P500 going higher.

You overestimate how many people actually care about mass shootings in America.

> Where do you draw the line on that attitude?

I draw the line at things that directly impact my net worth.

> Do you not care about global warming because you're probably not going to experience an unsurvivable wet bulb temperature where you happen to live in your lifetime?

Correct. I don’t care about global warming or climate change.

> Nothing is funny about AI being restricted like air travel.

Yeah it is.

Unless you work at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or Meta.

Your stocks/RSU are at risk of losing significant value.

> if the person has such an amount of money to burn, don't there exist much more fun opportunities to burn buckets of money than doing such experiments on LLMs?

Do you think US$2,000 is a lot of money?

> Who says that a country or a group of humans or even an individual human is beyond saving?

The one doing the saving.

Surely the one needing help should not be the to decide. They will always say “I’m worth saving”.

> Is everyone entitled to a high quality of life

Only finite land available in high QoL areas such as Orange County California, New York City, or Hawaii, depending on your lifestyle.

You want to tell us who is allowed to live there?

Because sure as hell won’t fit all 345 million people in America with a desire for higher QoL

> If everyone just exists in service of the product development lifecycle, who and what are the products actually for?

Anyone holding passive index ETFs in their brokerage / 401k / pension accounts.

> The problem is that they'll keep advertising it to you

If you don’t like it, then change providers.

If all providers do it, then you must pay to avoid advertisements.

Or, complain to your elected government representatives.

What’s that? Your Chase/Amex credit card gives you a monthly/annual credit? Ok. No more complaints then.

> That's going to give back the productivity gain and more, while also decreasing my quality of life.

Is everyone entitled to a high quality of life?

If not, then who draws the line as to who deserves what benefit in life? You?

> But this program appears to just treat war like it's some perfectly normal thing, rather than the most undesirable aspect of humanity which we're hoping to finally bring to an end so can we enjoy an age of peace amidst the internet.

War has existed for all of human history.

Why do you think humans today are special and will eliminate war?

The only acceptable answer is: you want hope.

> I thought we were beyond this in 2026.

You must be new to tech.

Good.

EU has the right to privacy.

Apple also has the right to not conduct business in EU.

If EU doesn’t like it, they can build their own sovereign software.

> The ordinary people who did the electrical, plumbing, security, etc. know where you are, and no level of security will protect you from an angry mob with nothing to lose.

Governments around the world already keep many locations/facilities secret and hidden from the public.

They will simply arrest you, or worse, just kill you.

What’s your solution to that?

> Google literally invented the boat (transformers) to be fair.

Isn’t that more damming for Google?

Invent the boat, don’t know how to use it, abandon it, then someone else comes along and steals your boat.