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Re:Self-owning corporations are legally possible by bdamm on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:06PM (#16441912)
It has no fear of anything physical or social such as jail, public humiliation, police brutality, poor health. Fear itself is irrelevant, including fear of dissolution. The entity can operate as per its primary goals without concern as to the ultimate success of the goals, whether that is siphoning money to a hidden account, disrupting government services by denial of service, spawning copycat organizations to thwart law enforcement, etc.
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Re:Self-owning corporations are legally possible by politician on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:30PM (#16442130)
This all already exists in the form of large, sometimes multinational, organizations. Has anyone from Well's Fargo been criminally prosecuted from the massive identity fraud they conducted by opening accounts falsely? From Equifax?

We don't need AIs to achieve this level of self-directed autonomy free to engage in criminal behavior without consequences: we already have Employee Handbooks.

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Re:Self-owning corporations are legally possible by megy on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:28PM (#16442997)
> Has anyone from Well's Fargo been criminally prosecuted from the massive identity fraud they conducted by opening accounts falsely?

Is that illegal though? I mean, I can create an account for you on my web platform, and everyone else.

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Re:Self-owning corporations are legally possible by danans on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:25PM (#16443382)
If in doing so you charge me for services I didn't request, then yes, it's fraud.

And that's what WF did: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_sc...

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Re:Self-owning corporations are legally possible by louisswiss on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:18PM (#16442024)
Some of those attributes sound like they could be more of a hinderance than a help (in the pursuit of successful illicit activity, I mean)
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Re:Self-owning corporations are legally possible by ars on Friday February 23, 2018 @01:23AM (#16444613)
And who exactly would implement the algorithm? That person has much to fear.
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