"Should we blame the paperclip-maximizing Slow AI corporations for attempting to escape disruptive capitalism's chaotic vortex? I don't think it matters: I don't deplore this whiny cowardice because it's hypocritical. I hate it because it's a ripoff that screws workers, customers and the environment." - you & me both, @pluralistic
@jwcph @pluralistic Speaking of paperclip maximisers, I've long suspected that Asimov's true target with his Three Rules of Robotics wasn't robots per se but private enterprise.
It'd be ... interesting ... to have an incorporation statute which ... incorporated those rules of behaviour.
@dredmorbius @jwcph @pluralistic Naah: I see it as a bright, probably autistic, Jewish kid from New York in the 1920s trying to wrap his head around the essential inhumanity of southern chattel slavery by rules-lawyering his way around it (and doing an embrace-and-extend on the then-clichéd "murderous robot" trope in Gernsback era SF).