Governments already have systems to identify who is a citizen. You can't Sybil attack birth certificates and naturalization paperwork because they're issued by a trustworthy entity[0]. Worldcoin is trying to reinvent ID cards for the sake of... IDK, becoming some kind of ancap alternative to a state bureaucracy?
Also, not everyone is going to accept UBI as a substitute for labor. We already see artists complaining specifically that AI art takes away the fun part of the job. The entire LessWrong/EA memeplex[1] assumes that the benefits of AI will be so obvious that humanity will tolerate the imposition of a new technological priesthood responsible for aligning AI to humanity's collective interests. Worship us and we will make Star Trek a documentary. This is like if you took all the worst parts of Christianity and all the worst parts of authoritarian Soviet Communism and mashed them up in a blender.
[0] Bracing for the inevitable UHM ACKTUALLY comments about ballot stuffing in third world countries
[1] Short for MEME comPLEX. A series of ideas that tend to be adopted together because they are self-reinforcing.
The ideal government would be the ideal partner — unfortunately the governments of the world are far from ideal.
So I can understand why you'd want to circumvent them. But in the end, we do need government, and circumventing them just means eventually needing to re-create them.
Which leads to the question: Do we fix the governments we have, or create new ones?
It seems analagous to the rewrite-from-scratch fallacy. In the end, I can't see any way around fixing the world's governments. Educating the electorate, structural reform, all of it.
So yeah. Currency and UBI seem like functions of governments to me too.
Also, not everyone is going to accept UBI as a substitute for labor. We already see artists complaining specifically that AI art takes away the fun part of the job. The entire LessWrong/EA memeplex[1] assumes that the benefits of AI will be so obvious that humanity will tolerate the imposition of a new technological priesthood responsible for aligning AI to humanity's collective interests. Worship us and we will make Star Trek a documentary. This is like if you took all the worst parts of Christianity and all the worst parts of authoritarian Soviet Communism and mashed them up in a blender.
[0] Bracing for the inevitable UHM ACKTUALLY comments about ballot stuffing in third world countries
[1] Short for MEME comPLEX. A series of ideas that tend to be adopted together because they are self-reinforcing.