I'd also stop working, though instead of working on a moonshot I'd go camping, work on my garden, and spend long days playing games with friends and family.

There is a qualitative difference between needing to spend 40+ hours a week to sustain yourself versus spending 0 hours. If one need to spend those hours anyways it makes sense to maximize the income from doing so.

It may take a generation, but I think most people would eventually come to the conclusion that the rat race isn't worth it when zero hours is an option.

I'm with you. If I got basic income I would absolutely quit work and not go back. The burden is now on these researchers to find at least two people who would go to work only if basic income were instituted, to balance us out.

Is that a typo? You just said you'll be working, then said you won't be working

It's pretty clear to me he meant working on someone else's payroll.

No, I think they said that they think that "working" towards an idea, a moonshot, wouldn't feel like working

He'd be in what capitalists like to call a "quantitative supercommission."