Me: Taxation of Income and to fund government is Hand Written Communication Only before the invention of Guttenberg Moveable Printing.

When you realize that we are a monetarily sovereign government, that the new monetary paradigm is Gifting instead of Debt Only and that a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale (and several other innovative and stabilizing policies) end inflation forever…then there will basically be only one necessary reason to tax at all and that is to inhibit/put out of business anti-social a$$holes who cannot recognize the beatific chains of ethics and of the new monetary paradigm.

Employment is fine as a purpose, but there are many, many, many more positive and constructive purposes other than employment…and many more options for employment when we reduce the costs of the parasitical and illegitimate business model of private finance.

AI will just be another problematic anomaly in a long list of same that we will puzzle over…until we recognize the most underlying solution to our monetary, financial and economic problems, namely the new monetary paradigm of Gifting.

TC:

I am a software contractor with 30+ years of experience in high tech. I was so impressed by ChatGPT’s coding skills when I first tried it that I billed my company 120 hours testing the envelope of its capabilities. Mind you, this is the first public release and I think it has doubled my productivity. Because I have invested the time I can tell you what few others are saying right now: ChatGPT interfacing is a learned skill, much like working with a petulant genius child. It is an interactive process and the more you know about programming the faster you can spot BS and, importantly, properly instruct the child how to change its behavior.

IF you are looking for a Buck Rogers Dr. Theopolis, ChatGPT is not it. Not today. But that will come far sooner than most people think. The rate of improvement will far surpass Moore’s law which was a doubling of transistor density every 18 months. Whatever significant metric of goodness that you want to track, it will double every 8 months. If that doesn’t impress you, nothing will. I wrote this in 2011:

http://economati.blogspot.com/2011/02/modern-day-john-henry-tale.html

Me: You’re right. However, AI will still be hamstrung even by instruction if it is not instruction in the superlative intellectual discipline AKA Wisdom which is the willingness and ability to ethically integrate seeming opposites into thirdness greater onenesses and which contains the entire set of the intellectual discipline of science.

Furthermore, AI needs to be programmed to consider the highest human ethic and experience, namely grace as in love in personal action, and as policies are the actions of systems, systemic policy.

AI, if it is programmed to consider ethics, might tell us to wake up and die right by throwing off the domination and economic sabotage of the parasitical, illegitimate and non-economic/productive business model of private finance.

Depth of thought and understanding is much more valuable than mere content.