It's been a year, indeed. We've launched the second, longer term project to address systemic problems in this country. https://blog.codinghorror.com/launching-the-rural-guaranteed-minimum-income-initiative/
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@codinghorror From the main site, it looks like the options are:
- Help, by talking to your neighbors, family, etc.
- Donate $1M+
- Donate $3M+
- ...
If you go to givedirectly via one of your links, you can eventually change some non-default donation options etc. to get to a point of being able to donate to "Poverty Relief - U.S.". Is that the same thing?
@codinghorror Another strong argument for GMI is that you literally cannot implement UBI as part of the fonesse with it is that it is unified with the tax system.
@codinghorror Great initiative and I learned something about GMI :). I hope a lot of people adopt counties 😅.
@codinghorror There is one single complaint I have about your "Share the American Dream" donation recipients: The Common Crawl Foundation shouldn't have received that million dollars, as the information it indiscriminately fetches without regard to licensing is part of the reason why #GenAI is a copyright landmine. If you're to insist with AI (if we disregard the economic and ethical costs), I'd rather see that money spent into building an open-source, replicatable corpus of data instead, such as the Common Pile: huggingface.co/papers/2506.052…
@csolisr not sure this is a fair characterization of Common Crawl. I know Rich Skrenta personally and I am extremely, EXTREMELY sensitive to bad actors and have called them out far before anyone else. I could name names but I'm not gonna.
@codinghorror very interesting, thanks a lot!
In Switzerland we have something called "prestations complémentaires" in french. I guess it goes somewhat in the direction of GMI. But it's not open to everyone.