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If rapidly reproducing digital minds have at least as strong a claim to universal basic income as biological humans, fiscal capacity would be quickly exhausted

Concrete illustration of how standard welfare policies fail in the presence of super-beneficiaries

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Sharing the World with Digital Minds

Carl Shulman · Nick Bostrom

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Malthusian Population Dynamics for Digital Minds
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The scenario where digital mind production continues until wages equal marginal costs, driving wages to machine subsistence levels
Universal Basic Income
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Common policy proposal to offset AI unemployment; the paper analyzes how it would be fiscally exhausted by rapidly reproducing digital minds

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The exponential or super-exponential reproductive potential of digital minds could allow them to vastly outnumber humans in a relatively short time, correspondingly increasing the collective strength of their moral claims
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Establishes the reproductive capacity dimension of super-beneficiary status

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Reproductive Capacity of Digital Mindsconcept0.803
The ease and speed of exact reproduction of software, enabling exponential population growth of digital minds
Digital minds with humanlike capabilities could think at least thousands of times, and perhaps millions of times, faster than humans given sufficient hardwarehypothesis0.798
Grounds the subjective speed dimension of super-beneficiary status
Multiple distinct quantitative and qualitative dimensions make it robust that digital minds will be super-beneficiaries at technological maturityclaim0.795
The paper's central empirical-philosophical thesis synthesizing nine paths
Cognitive capacities evolve through continuity across natural, hybrid, and synthetic life forms using conserved bioelectric mechanismsclaim0.787
We hypothesize that general computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousness, and that successful implementation can be established via analysis or testing.hypothesis0.784
The central hypothesis of the paper
It might be possible to design digital minds that could realize hedonic well-being at levels that human brains are totally incapable of instantiatinghypothesis0.782
The speculative hedonic range dimension of super-beneficiary status
The claim that human-sized minds are optimal for generating welfare per resource unit may seem a little suspicious absent further justification, since the scaling relationship is unlikely to have a peak at human mind sizeclaim0.780
Supports the mind-scale dimension of super-beneficiary status
The cost of producing a given number of quality-adjusted life years for a humanlike digital mind will likely fall far below the equivalent cost for a biological humanclaim0.777
Supports super-beneficiary status via cost-of-living dimension