He argues that UBI is not a viable policy due to its inflationary effects and the lack of a sustainable funding model at scale.

“Finding the mechanism for funding this at scale is not what this study actually looked at because if you look at it the net effect would be inflationary and that's the third major reason is that ultimately this would have an inflationary effect”

He posits that UBI is a form of virtue signaling that creates dependence rather than solving poverty or incentivizing productivity.

“I think it's a combination of virtue signaling combined with let's assume that you want to become the first AI trillionaire and people are concerned about job loss you're going to virtually signal in the direction of well let's just give everyone money and a lot of people in power will love that bec”

He considers the traditional concept of UBI potentially outdated and wonders if a future model might involve universal basic compute.

“I wonder if the future looks something like more like Universal basic compute than Universal basic income and everybody gets like a slice of gpt7 compute”