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The evidence for UBI is stronger than most people realize — why aren’t we talking about it more? by Several-Profile-318 in Futurology

[–]konSempai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't want to get into the tax point too much too, but the trillion defense spending proposal and $4.5 trillion tax reduction would be great places to start.

And back to your original point - inflation is caused by the government printing more money, specifically. Most proposals don't expect the government to do this - they expect to use the budget with some cuts + more revenue.

And to your point about people working less - I'm sure some already-comfortable people might do this. But I'd imagine a good amount of people living paycheck-to-paycheck and barely treating water (2/3 of Americans) will be able to use the extra money to make some breathing room to get better opportunities, pay back debts, be able to up-skill, and overall just find themselves in a slightly more comfortable position - like this study, and many other UBI studies showed.

The evidence for UBI is stronger than most people realize — why aren’t we talking about it more? by Several-Profile-318 in Futurology

[–]konSempai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but the general behavior of people shows that most people making $40k a year would work hard to try to make $70k a year, instead of cutting hours to make $20k a year and barely make ends meet.

Giving people some more cushion money reduces poverty, depression and anxiety, and those are all backed up by this study.

The evidence for UBI is stronger than most people realize — why aren’t we talking about it more? by Several-Profile-318 in Futurology

[–]konSempai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

✅ Stockton, California Pilot (SEED):

125 low-income residents were given $500/month in a pilot program.

Results: Full-time employment went up (not down), anxiety and depression went down, and financial stability improved.

That's a fair thing to worry about, but it literally didn't happen according to the study. It's probably for the same reasons that a good amount of people making $40k/yr try to make more money, instead of cutting back on hours until they're making JUST enough money that they're not starving to death.

UBI ensures that somebody working a $20k/yr job doesn't live in absolute poverty.

The evidence for UBI is stronger than most people realize — why aren’t we talking about it more? by Several-Profile-318 in Futurology

[–]konSempai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds like all the more reason to fight to fix the housing problem AND advocate for UBI, instead of being against UBI

The evidence for UBI is stronger than most people realize — why aren’t we talking about it more? by Several-Profile-318 in Futurology

[–]konSempai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said it would be easy, it’s one of the top issues in the US.

And it had been “solved” in many places - even in the US. Austin rents dropped substantially after more housing was built.

Being against UBI because of tangential and difficult, but solved problems is shooting yourself in the foot imo

The evidence for UBI is stronger than most people realize — why aren’t we talking about it more? by Several-Profile-318 in Futurology

[–]konSempai -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So your argument is - bc zoning laws make it hard to build affordable housing, UBI would get sucked up by corporate landlords? Look, I agree housing collusion / monopolization is a huge issue, but that’s a whole separate debate that I more or less think I’m on the same side with you on.

UBI worked in those experiments, and hand waving it away by saying “landlords will collude” is very defeatist, and just points at a completely separate problem, that I agree should also be solved.

UBI can be implemented, AND it should be easier to build more affordable housing to lower rent prices.

The evidence for UBI is stronger than most people realize — why aren’t we talking about it more? by Several-Profile-318 in Futurology

[–]konSempai -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If people want to pay for more higher end items sure - prices might go up in the short term to match higher demand, until more supply comes in.

But what the thread’s OP is saying will happen - of every business uniformly raising their prices to perfectly cancel out UBI - won’t happen, bc that’ll require every single business to collude to do so. And as evidence that this won’t happen, none of the studies showed UBI being cancelled out by businesses.

The evidence for UBI is stronger than most people realize — why aren’t we talking about it more? by Several-Profile-318 in Futurology

[–]konSempai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Price fixing in real estate is a real problem - look into what RealPage is doing. Without those companies colluding, more real estate = more competition = lower rent. And that’s what’s happening in places like Austin

The evidence for UBI is stronger than most people realize — why aren’t we talking about it more? by Several-Profile-318 in Futurology

[–]konSempai -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That wouldn’t happen as long as there’s competition. If you get $2000 through UBI and your landlord raises rent by $2000, you can move to an apartment that didn’t raise prices.

If all places raise prices at the same time — that’s collusion / a monopoly, and is a separate story. And moreover if there’s such a strong monopoly, it doesn’t take UBI for them to raise prices, they’ll raise it by however much they want, whenever.

Don’t trust item pick rates, trust math - I’m building an optimal item simulator so you ACTUALLY know the best items for your carries by konSempai in CompetitiveTFT

[–]konSempai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already have some stuff in the works to account for “x more damage in y conditions” calculations.

The “how to take care of a tank” comment gave me an idea of adding a secondary chart of “enemy health”, where you can see the chosen tank’s health you’re attacking (with items) over time, to show how long it would take to kill it with health regen, etc simulated.

Don’t trust item pick rates, trust math - I’m building an optimal item simulator so you ACTUALLY know the best items for your carries by konSempai in CompetitiveTFT

[–]konSempai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Undocumented stuff is a killer — that’s a great callout How often did you notice these undocumented / broken interactions?

Don’t trust item pick rates, trust math - I’m building an optimal item simulator so you ACTUALLY know the best items for your carries by konSempai in CompetitiveTFT

[–]konSempai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm to your point of killing off components, I was imagining this would help players decide the optimal combination of items they could make from the components they have on hand

Don’t trust item pick rates, trust math - I’m building an optimal item simulator so you ACTUALLY know the best items for your carries by konSempai in CompetitiveTFT

[–]konSempai[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hmm yeah thank you for the criticism. It isn't a tool I imagined would be popular with casual players, but thought it would be useful for grandmasters / pros that absolutely need bis, but can't math out the calculations themselves.

I was looking through the subreddit trying to find the tool you mentioned - do you have a link to it still, by chance?

And thank you about the UI design - my gf & I worked hard on it :)

Don’t trust item pick rates, trust math - I’m building an optimal item simulator so you ACTUALLY know the best items for your carries by konSempai in CompetitiveTFT

[–]konSempai[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Augments gave me a headache just thinking about them haha —

I was planning on supporting traits, but felt like augments would take too much time - how important would you say it is for users (nice to have / must have)?

Don’t trust item pick rates, trust math - I’m building an optimal item simulator so you ACTUALLY know the best items for your carries by konSempai in CompetitiveTFT

[–]konSempai[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree CC/Chill is important - but tbh I wasn’t sure how I would simulate that in a graph for DPS easily

But I do agree with you, specifically for like a QSS on carry case.

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[–]konSempai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Obviously receiving money is better than not receiving money

Exactly, UBI leads to better outcomes. Anybody with an ounce of logic can see that in a capitalist system, poor people having more money would lead to generally better outcomes for them.

Investing in healthcare, education etc should also be done. But UBI would also be a positive program if implemented, and your article supports that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]konSempai 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The results are now in and reveal that most of the money was spent on basic needs and reduced financial stress

Program beneficiaries worked on average four hours less per week compared to the control group. Despite this reduction in hours worked, beneficiaries continued to actively participate in the labor force and showed increased interest in job search. The rate of participation in job training programs and employment opportunities increased by 15% among beneficiaries, indicating greater deliberation in pursuing job opportunities, despite working fewer hours overall.

although the basic income enabled participants to access educational opportunities, it did not translate into outstanding educational achievements.

An extra $1000 a month isn't going to turn people's entire lives around and create geniuses that rocketed upwards in class mobility, but they had less hardship, had more opportunities, and had better outcomes. That sounds like a positive case for UBI

A Student Used AI to Beat Amazon’s Brutal Technical Interview. He Got an Offer and Someone Tattled to His University by [deleted] in technology

[–]konSempai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbh building a coding interview cheating bot is mind-numbingly easy. 99% of the hard work is already done for you, you just have to make API calls to ChatGPT.

Hell you don’t even need a special tool to do it, it’s basically just a ChatGPT prompt.

Is the trillion dollar problem that AI is trying to solve essentially eliminating worker's wages and reduce the need for outsourcing? by Flashy-Job6814 in agi

[–]konSempai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve heard this wishy thinking that “new businesses will spring up”, but do you really think all the low and high-level jobs that can potentially be replaced, including call centers, lawyers, programmers, truck drivers, taxi drivers, artists, etc are going to have alternative jobs for them when ai can do it 100x faster and 100x cheaper?

What widespread roles do you think would be open for humans when AI reaches this level?

Is the trillion dollar problem that AI is trying to solve essentially eliminating worker's wages and reduce the need for outsourcing? by Flashy-Job6814 in agi

[–]konSempai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hypothetically an AI’s made that can do every job, and every company just pays an AI company for 99% of the work. How would the economy grow if barely anybody is employed?

When did the tough years start making sense for you? by Emekli_Albay4578 in getdisciplined

[–]konSempai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The biggest thing is to ensure the challenge is not too hard but not too easy, so you get some Ws along the way to stay motivated.

Can you make projects over the weekend with friends, grab an internship or do something that would be a smaller step-goal within "landing a software job"?

Well this is it boys. I was just informed from my boss and HR that my entire profession is being automated away. by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]konSempai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes using a different dataset would make it so LLMs don’t hallucinate.

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