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Comment by Pedro Domingos
Professor of computer science at UW and author of 'The Master Algorithm'
In developed countries, we don't let people starve or go without emergency medical care, so we effectively already have a basic income. Let's start by making it less random and inefficient.
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Verified with moderate confidence. Pedro Domingos discusses UBI extensively in the final chapter of "The Master Algorithm" (2015), where he envisions a future with mass unemployment due to automation and argues for income redistribution. The quote's sentiment — that developed countries already provide ad-hoc safety nets and should formalize them as a basic income — aligns with his known views from both the book and his EconTalk interview with Russ Roberts. The exact wording could not be confirmed as the source is a book (Amazon product page link), but the attribution and content are consistent with Domingos's published positions. Vote direction "for" on "Implement a universal basic income" is correct — the quote explicitly advocates for formalizing existing safety nets into a UBI.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 4d ago
replying to Pedro Domingos