Nah, the Bigfoot believers and UFO nuts are harmless, unlike the Q crazies.

That's a coincidence. I want rich donors too for my study into the effects of beer and chocolate.

Fire lots of job for life lazy government staff who spend most of their days avoiding work by shredding benefit applications or supporting paperwork. That definitely happens in the UK, I know people that saw it first hand. Also external contractors milk the system with huge bills but the government can't get rid of them because they are there only ones that do any work.

Replace that mess with UBI and you have made massive savings. Not saying that will pay for all of UBI though.

The most sensible plan I heard was to replace the massive, complex, and almost entirely arbitrary benefit system with UBI. That benefit system is a huge employer of permanent staff and expensive external contractors. It sounds a fortune on offices, bespoke software, and other costs. It appears to be grossly inefficient as well as open to abuse.

Getting rid of that probably won't fund UBI, but it sure will make it a lot cheaper and will probably distribute more funds to those that need them and less to those who game the system.

The rich people who funded the campaign of lies to get Brexit though certainly don't intend to give away their money.

This is just a study. Although why there have been quite so many studies into UBI I don't know. Probably because having a far greater number of people than jobs is a real possibility in the near future.

I was just thinking that for one thing people might be able to ask legitimate questions again.

If they were actually that loosely modded, they would be packed with spam.

The same setup but the rightful owner of the car (the person who buys it) holding the master key would also keep the car from being stolen and would also let the owner add/remove fobs and many other things at will.

Put down the cool-aid and actually think it through.

Consider, you buy a car. You are presented with your key and fob and a USB key (or other device) containing the master key to the car. You lock that master key up somewhere. Perhaps make a duplicate and lock it up somewhere else. That key controls the authorized key lists. The sooper sret data that the auto manufacturers claim will endanger the owner can all be AES encrypted with the CANbus periodically announcing the session key to all devices on the reader list using diffie-hellman. You could even use it to have the car accept newly generated keys for your DIY fob or to add a second master.

No need for the dealer unless you somehow lose your master key. Then the dealer will need to use the OEM key to set a new master key, and will probably rape your wallet to do so.

If you buy the car used and don't trust that the seller turned over or destroyed all copies of the master, you can use your copy to enroll a new master and then delete the old one.

And those reasons mostly have portraits of former presidents on them.

There are people who are absolutely lethal when driving. I don't mean the boy racer types, but those that know the routine but can't handle anything outside that.

A friend of mine once described seeing a multi car crash when he was walking. Something avoidable happened and instead of breaking a driver covered her eyes with hands and did nothing leaving the car to roll in a straight line into moving traffic. It hit a couple of other cars and caused a few more near misses.

I could well understand some drivers doing exactly what the computer says without any thought.

Lotsa luck! This is what, the three hundred and fifty seventh thing that was going to let MBA's give fuzzy and incomplete ideas to a piece of software and it would magically crank out bug free software?

While ChatGPT is clearly more sophisticated, all of this reminds me of people reacting to Eliza many years ago.

In order for ChatGPT to successfully produce any program on it's own (rather than just cut-pasting stackoverflow.com) you would have to tell it what to code in English at a fine grained level. So fine grained that you would need to be a competent programmer to do it. And if that's the case, it can be more efficiently and clearly communicated in source code form.

I guess you figure those EVs will work just fine with nobody in particular designing them or writing any firmware for them. That the people whi dig up the rare earths will just know what to do to make them into a battery. Etc.

Seems a bit far fetched. Are you expecting driving police in SS uniforms or something?

The biggest factor that might limit in-office will be employers wondering why they keep flushing money down the toilet on rent month after month.

But if you really can't stand working at home, I wouldn't be surprised if someone opens "Rent-A-Cube" so you can drive to an office of your choice to work. Or a local library plus a laptop might fit the bill.

The difference is, you aren't being blocked from working somewhere not at home.

By asking the question, you show that you noticed.