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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:26:45 JST Aral Balkan

   Machines aren’t taking over.
   Corporations are taking over.

   Worry about the right thing.

   #corporatocracy #ai

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     Zach777 (zach777@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 14:08:14 JST Zach777

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     @aral This post speaks to me. We need corporation alignment not ai alignment.
     Corporations would gladly fire everyone and plunge them into poverty to get better profits. With or without ai.

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     Gabriel Marin (gbrlmarn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:18:43 JST Gabriel Marin

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     @aral #technofeudalism

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:18:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Gabriel Marin

     @gbrlmarn https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHoLopZSYJw

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:33:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     @clacke @quincy @cstross @pluralistic Corporations are institutional psychopaths.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:33:34 JST clacke

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     • Quincy

     @quincy Yes, @cstross , @pluralistic and Ted Chiang have all referred to corporations as a form of slow AI that executes on a substrate of humans and paperwork. As far as I remember seeing, they each credit the other two with coming up with the analogy. 😊

     @aral

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     Quincy (quincy@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:33:36 JST Quincy

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     • Charlie Stross

     @aral Aren't corporations machines too? 😁
     (I remember @cstross making that argument in a keynote (IIRC))

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     Mark Dominus (mjd@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 20:19:52 JST Mark Dominus

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     @aral “Capitalism is the machine that will do whatever it takes to prevent us from turning it off.” (Ted Chiang, https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey)

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     Jordan Biserkov (jbiserkov@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:19:08 JST Jordan Biserkov

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     @aral

     “I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too. Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us. And technology and capitalism have been so closely intertwined that it’s hard to distinguish the two.”

     -- Ted Chiang

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:19:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jordan Biserkov

     @jbiserkov Spot on.

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     Mostly Linux (mostly_linux@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:30:06 JST Mostly Linux

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     @aral corporations are legal constructs comprised of people cooperating for the common goal of exchanging value for value.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:30:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Mostly Linux

     @mostly_linux :awesome: