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Happy to see HN comments largely explaining how the author of the Politico article wrote an ignorant dunk on free trade. Maybe there are some folks around here who still believe in…

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/11/ai-outperform... among others

Ah, fair. Yea, perhaps the capitalism we have tried is the closest that is practically possible. I think we overweight how many people in society do not know what to do with cash. …

Depends how medical advice is defined, but AI has been shown to be better than humans in several contexts already, e.g. radiology.

A society built via capitalism just gives people what they want; not maximizing some arbitrary objective function. We currently have no capitalist societies on earth.

He's seems open to the idea that it is just a transfer to a citizen's brokerage account which could be a service provided by the private market.

Exactly. Sam isn't a politician or policymaker. He is trying to contribute ideas for others to improve and implement.

Technology has reduced costs of goods and services by orders of magnitude more than any public policy. But yes I do agree iterating to improve public policy is important too. Hence…

Sam's proposal doesn't avoid the wealth tax compounds simple arithmetic that PG notes. And yes many important questions for society to answer on this, e.g. how much does is disince…

Altman isn't arguing that Moore's Law DOES apply to everything but rather than we should work toward such a world. It is good for society if the costs of goods and services decreas…