Governments must tax robots to redistribute machine wealth
βSo you need to tax the robots and AI companies, significantly, and you need to somehow find a way to reallocate Yeah. Money from this machine economy to the human economy.β
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βSo you need to tax the robots and AI companies, significantly, and you need to somehow find a way to reallocate Yeah. Money from this machine economy to the human economy.β
βBut as you go into being an adult, you get kind of the the the skill of asking questions beaten out of you by by rote learning and and working in regular jobs and your friends saying, for heaven's sake, Jack, like, stop asking these insane sounding questions. Yeah. AI actually can answer these questions for you and can allow us to maintain that kind of childlike curiosity into adulthood in a way that I think is, like, very mind expanding and and wonderful.β
βI wish that the focus was less on what's best for current residents and what's best for the residents who might live here five, ten, fifteen years from now.β
βIn the last five years, there's been a lot of movement to eliminate single family zoning, which is this idea that you can only build one house on one plot of land in a neighborhood. And single family zoning is behind why there's a scarcity of housing in cities like Seattle and many cities across the country.β
βBut what but the what it means is there will be many systems like this, and the world is going to adapt to this. We have a chance to use it to make much much of the world much more secure, But at the same time, we now have these new capabilities in the world we have to contend with.β
βBy April 2027, AI systems should be able to do tasks that might take a person a hundred and fifty hours. Now about what is that? That's almost a month's worth of work, which it requires strange things to happen in the economy.β
βI do think that the shape of this in the future is is parts of AI need to become actually a true utility where you would expect things like cyber defense capabilities to be something that you provide, like, at cost or at, the cost of it costs you to provide you with no margin.β
βif there is more demand, that should, in theory, push up price because if it doesn't, what you can have are shortages. And shortages are worse than paying more because then there are people who might be willing to pay a higher price who just don't get the option to.β
βSo I think a good metaphor for the housing market is musical chairs. Like, the people who already own houses are sitting in their chairs and whenever there's a new spring housing market, some people get up and they move and they select a new chair. And if you're not adding more chairs in, you can't get first time homebuyers into the market so easily.β
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