Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now
by wat10000 on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:19PM
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Those corporations are already superhuman entities with morals that don’t match ours. They do cause a lot of problems. Maybe it’s better to figure out how to fix that real, current problem rather than hypothetical future ones.
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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now
by jay_kyburz on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:44PM
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Yeah, the AI will be a tool of a corp. So in effect we are talking about limiting corporate power.
Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now
by Viliam1234 on Friday June 20, 2025 @02:41PM
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> the AI will be a tool of a corp.
Up to a certain level. Behind that level, the corp will be a tool of the AI. And even further that way, the corp will no longer be necessary.
This parallel has been drawn. Charlie Stross [0] in particular thinks the main difference is that pre-digital AIs are capable of behaving much faster, so that other entities (countries, lawmakers, …) have time to react to them.
[0]: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-yo...
Similar claims can be made about any structure of humans that exhibits gestalt intelligence, e.g. nations, stock markets, etc.