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If you substitute the word "corporation" for OpenClaw, you'll see many of these same problems have plagued us for decades. We've had artificial intelligence tha
by vannevar 8mo ago
If you substitute the word "corporation" for OpenClaw, you'll see many of these same problems have plagued us for decades. We've had artificial intelligence that makes critical decisions without specific human accountability for a long time, and we have yet to come up with a really effective way of dealing with them that isn't essentially closing the barn door after the horse has departed. The new LLM-driven AI just accelerates the issues that have been festering in society for many years, and scales them down to the level of individuals.
- manofmanysmiles 8mo agoOr "institution", or "legal system", or "government."
- vannevar 8mo agoTo some extent, yes. Government in particular. Both of them "close the loop" in the sense that they are self-sustaining (corporations through revenue, governments through taxes). Some institutions can be self-sustaining, but many lack strong independent feedback loops. Legal systems are pretty much all dependent on a parent government, or very large corporate entities (think big multi-year contracts).
- QuantumGood 8mo agoOligarchy (, Iron Law of)
- peterldowns 8mo agoyou may enjoy reading Nick Land, he has written about very similar ideas, specifically the idea that corporations and even "capital" can be considered AI in many ways.
- logicprog 8mo agoI second this
- gom_jabbar 8mo agoFor those who are interested, I'm researching Land's main thesis that capitalism is AI: https://retrochronic.com https://retrochronic.com
- HoldOnAMinute 8mo agoWasn't this already discovered by Bayes ? Also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
- guyomes 8mo agoThe flow of ideas goes both ways between AI and economy. Notably, the economist Friedrich Hayek [1] was a source of inspiration in the development of AI. He wrote in 1945 on the idea that the price mechanism serves to share and synchronise local and personal knowledge [2]. In 1952, he described the brain as a self-ordering classification system based on a network of connections [3]. This last work was cited as a source of inspiration by Frank Rosenblatt in his 1958 paper on the perceptron [4], one of the pioneering studies in machine learning. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Societ... [3]: https://archive.org/details/sensoryorderinqu00haye https://archive.org/details/sensoryorderinqu00haye [2]: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/cogs501/Rosenblatt1958.pdf https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/cogs501/Rosenblatt1958.pd...
- ModernMech 8mo agoYup, I have always viewed corporations as a kind of artificial intelligences -- they certainly don't think and behave like human intelligences, at least not healthy well-adjusted humans. If corporations were humans I feel they would have a personality disorder like psychopathy, and I'm starting to feel the same way about AI.
- btschaegg 8mo agoI'll just… leave this here. https://youtu.be/RmIgJ64z6Y4?si=PYtN2xCrDZ79WlY7 https://youtu.be/RmIgJ64z6Y4?si=PYtN2xCrDZ79WlY7
- cyberge99 8mo agoA corporation is a very high barrier to entry. Well, it used to be, so the rate at which bad decisions could happen was tepid.