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Re:Just Too Efficient by MaxBarraclough on Sunday July 12, 2020 @06:52AM (#23810439)
Perhaps a nitpick, but a corporation might act to combine the profit-maximising virtues of a number of different humans, to give a result that no single one of them is capable of. Combining the innovation of one with the amorality of another, for instance.

Related to this, on the morality dimension, corporations can introduce a diffusion of responsibility [0] and enable a collection of humans to commit to profit-maximising acts that no single one of them would do. Less ominously, teams of cooperating researchers may do something similar on the innovation dimension: their combined efforts act as a 'super researcher' beyond the ability of any single human researcher.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility

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