Comment by vrganj

Ah, then we might be on the same page after all. The reason I used the "distraction" wording is because I feel like the techbros that are centralizing power around themselves often talk about UBI as a way to avoid the more pertinent questions of power and ownership.

It can be an implementation detail once we have public control of AGI. But the public control is the important part, otherwise its just another mechanism of control.