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points by another-dave 12 hours ago | 0 comments
"University (really all education beyond teaching people to speak) will be pointless because there’s no work to do and because growing your human capital doesn’t change your life outcomes: you get the same UBI whether you’re illiterate or a PhD."

If every did get UBI, I'd imagine there would still be some who'd choose to attend (or teach at) universities for the love of knowledge.

In the same way there would be book clubs, writers' groups, 5-a-side football teams etc etc

[–] wiml 11 hours ago
Why even learn to speak? Why not give up sentience entirely? (There's an SF novel from the last few decades which had this as part of the setting: that intelligence is only useful at some stages of evolution, and most spacefaring species eventually lose it?)
[–] weatherlite 1 hour ago
What? How are you gonna communicate with anything without speaking? The LLM will keep showing you videos and you will draw it pictures of what you want?
[–] abraxas 12 hours ago
And just like book clubs of today it will be attended by a tiny minority.
[–] advael 11 hours ago
Why? I'd join more book clubs if I didn't have to spend so much time working or looking for work. And I'm luckier than most in that I somewhat got to pursue a career of my choice. I think the vast overwhelming majority of people don't get much fulfillment from their vocation at all, and given a basic income, would spend their time and energy on "economically useless" endeavors that aren't just wireheading. In fact, I think the degree to which people do that now has mostly to do with feeling trapped and isolated by economic conditions that are a political choice already, let alone in a supposedly post-scarcity world