Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable
by StillBored on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:14PM
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Does it matter who "owns" it?
Say someone set up a business selling coconuts on an island. Over time in order to avoid labor they automated the growing/picking and selling of the coconuts. Then they automated the security of the island.
At what point does "ownership" of the process stop having meaning if you effectively have to go to war and destroy the machine/island in order to collect its "wealth"?
There are potentially variations of this where a non human CFO basically says, no more dividends, all further profits will be invested in physical security to avoid theft, until it effectively becomes an enormous self protecting war machine selling phone (or whatever) service.
Say someone set up a business selling coconuts on an island. Over time in order to avoid labor they automated the growing/picking and selling of the coconuts. Then they automated the security of the island.
At what point does "ownership" of the process stop having meaning if you effectively have to go to war and destroy the machine/island in order to collect its "wealth"?
There are potentially variations of this where a non human CFO basically says, no more dividends, all further profits will be invested in physical security to avoid theft, until it effectively becomes an enormous self protecting war machine selling phone (or whatever) service.