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It's worth pointing out the main reason why people are invested in robots, AI, or corporations is that you can own them as capital either for direct production
by wwweston 2y ago
It's worth pointing out the main reason why people are invested in robots, AI, or corporations is that you can own them as capital either for direct production purposes or secondhand economic benefits, often replacing human labor, which you cannot own.
This status difference is rooted in significant recognized differences and philosophical beliefs about the value of individuals, and in the idea that the law and society should exist to support that. It's pretty far from "purely legal" and the fact that we're going to let people own robots should be only one of the many clues that there's something different about them.
- ben_w 2y agoCouple of hundred years ago, we could own other people. All that philosophical stuff, that only mattered because it resulted in a change in the law — and in the case of the US different philosophy led to a civil war to reject/enforce the law.