Note on basic income and hyper-intelligence

Universal basic income is a law which would improve the mind’s ability to build “navigational charts”, and improve its ability to select laws that are beneficial to its dreams and desires and to the self.

Cultural memes naturally co-opt genetic imperatives for food, sex and dominance and form mutually supporting memeplexes. Basic Income attenuates genetic imperatives like survival and territorialism, which lets the brain focus more on a cultural perspective, and long-term planning, allowing a different form of ideas to colonize the mind.

Basic income will amplify our collective intelligence in ways so that we can be high-functioning all the time. People are not high-functioning, most people barely scrape by. Basic income will do for neural information — memes — what the TCP/IP protocol did for digital information. That’s the pattern we’re dealing with — Resilience at the level of ideas.

Since people think with their genetic imperatives and not with their mind, they are unable to understand this.