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Sam Altman falls out of love with universal basic income

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-ubi-universal-basic-income-view-changes-2026-4
8•MallocVoidstar•1h ago

Comments

stuaxo•30m ago
Yeah billionaires don't want to pay any money to the society that enabled them.
SpicyLemonZest•15m ago
The headline is clearly crafted to make you think that so that you'll click on it. The contents make it clear that he's really saying something different and much more aligned with your thoughts. He thinks that in a world where labor is less valuable, UBI won't be enough; the average person in a post-work future needs to have a genuine ownership stake in the AI compute that's making things happen, not just welfare funded from the profits of the billionaires who own it.
cyanydeez•10m ago
And UBI said by billionaires is like lube wielded by a rapist.
hgoel•17m ago
He wouldn't want to be accused of actually believing in anything
smashmiek•5m ago
Fickle Clown Economics
MattDaEskimo•8m ago
This makes sense.

Initially, the focus was consumer use of AI. People needed to feel safe, they needed to feel part of something better.

Now, the focus is enterprises, and they need to know that their tokens aren't going to spike in price from taxes

AI Companies Can't Regulate Themselves. They Should Regulate Each Other

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-companies-can-t-regulate-themselves-they-should-regulate-...
1•nedruod•18s ago•0 comments

Pentagon officials broadly detail $55B drone plan under DAWG

https://breakingdefense.com/2026/04/pentagon-officials-broadly-detail-55-billion-drone-plan-under...
1•thegdsks•47s ago•0 comments

Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/561e7512-253e-424b-9734-ef4098440601/Industrial%20Policy%20for%20the%2...
1•avaer•6m ago•0 comments

A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp

https://archive.org/details/a-programmers-guide-to-common-lisp
2•jellinek•8m ago•1 comments

Running a custom trained Piper TTS model on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1t0xho8/running_a_custom_trained_piper_tts_model_on/
1•yakkomajuri•9m ago•0 comments

Disabling the new AF_ALG by default in gnulib (from 2018)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2018-06/msg00034.html
1•dxdxdt•9m ago•0 comments

Copy-Fail: Linux Privilege Escalation

https://copy.fail/#affected
1•joatmon-snoo•10m ago•0 comments

Bitcoin Is Venice (2021)

https://allenfarrington.medium.com/bitcoin-is-venice-bitcoin-is-741cc7d22e9
1•simonebrunozzi•10m ago•0 comments

Active exploitation of cPanel/WHM critical vulnerability

https://www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/view-all-content/alerts-and-advisories/active-exploitation-of-c...
1•Svoka•10m ago•0 comments

'Empire of Skulls' book review: When phrenology raced ahead

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/empire-of-skulls-review-when-phrenology-raced-ahead-1c1fdab0
3•hhs•11m ago•1 comments

Is Rise of the Robots (1994) the worst game?

https://old.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1t1407x/is_rise_of_the_robots_1994_actually_the_worst/
1•doener•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Any nice project ideas that you know you'll never bring to life

1•atilimcetin•12m ago•0 comments

New study finds task switching raises risk in transplant surgeries

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/04/pamplin-bit-research-organ-transplant-task-switching.html
1•hhs•15m ago•0 comments

GameStop is preparing offer for eBay

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/gamestop-preparing-offer-ebay-wsj-212703455.html
1•avonmach•18m ago•0 comments

The downfall of OpenAI and who will follow

https://msukhareva.substack.com/p/the-downfall-of-openai-and-who-will
1•mnky9800n•22m ago•0 comments

Revolving doors weaken SEC oversight: study

https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/revolving-doors-weaken-sec-oversight/
1•hhs•22m ago•0 comments

Why is an Oxford lecturer allowed to wear fake breasts to work?

https://www.andrewdoyle.org/p/why-is-an-oxford-lecturer-allowed
1•vlapsvlapszsz•23m ago•0 comments

AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/study-ai-models-that-consider-users-feeling-are-more-likely-to...
1•AgentNews•25m ago•0 comments

Does threatening an AI agent's existence make it a better gambler?

https://handyai.substack.com/p/does-threatening-an-ai-agents-existence
1•surprisetalk•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A visual planner for the Gridfinity modular storage system

https://gridfinitylayouttool.com/
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Number Go Down

https://twitter.com/allenf32/status/2045477517201477686
1•simonebrunozzi•29m ago•0 comments

Deep Moats and Platform Shifts in Computing

https://semiconductor.substack.com/p/deep-moats-and-platform-shifts-in
1•naves•30m ago•0 comments

Starting from Scratch

https://shvbsle.in/starting-from-scratch/
1•kn81198•33m ago•0 comments

Friday Studio AI runtime: Turn prompts, skills, & tools into reliable config

https://github.com/friday-platform/friday-studio
5•Vpr99•39m ago•2 comments

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-palantir-is-paying-tiktok-influencers-...
6•qwikhost•42m ago•1 comments

AI doesn't replace us, but commodizes us

https://qihqi.github.io/posts/what-if-ai-commodizes-us/
1•qihqi•43m ago•0 comments

Shut out from the US, the world’s largest EV maker thinks it can stay on top

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/china/china-ev-byd-stella-li-interview-intl-hnk
1•breve•45m ago•0 comments

The Road to a Billion-Token Context

https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-road-to-a-billion-token-context/
2•pseudolus•48m ago•0 comments

Tessera: Unlocking Heterogeneous GPUs Through Kernel-Granularity Disaggregation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10180
1•matt_d•48m ago•0 comments

AI actors and writers will be ineligible for Oscars

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ai-actors-writers-will-be-ineligible-oscars-2026-05-01/
4•pseudolus•51m ago•2 comments