Comment by b00ty4breakfast
1 year ago
>...its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.
Oh look, a corporation refusing to take responsibility for literally anything. How passe.
1 year ago
>...its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.
Oh look, a corporation refusing to take responsibility for literally anything. How passe.
The invention of the corporation is virtually to eliminate responsibility/culpability from any individual.
Human car crash? Human punishment. Corporate-owned car crash? A fine which reduces salaries some negligible percent.
Yes, corporations have all of the rights of a person, abilities beyond a person, yet few of the responsibilities of a person.
Our failure at "corporate alignment" makes it pretty clear that we're also going to fail at any version of "AI alignment"...
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They actually don't have all the rights of a person and they do have those same responsibilities.
If this company was a sole proprietorship, the only recourse this kid would have is to sue the owner, up to bankruptcy.
Since it's a corporation, his recourse is to sue the company, up to bankruptcy.
As for corporations having rights, I can explain it further if necessary but the key understanding is that the singular of "corporations are people" is "a corporation is people" not "a corporation is a person".
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I remember reading a quote from someone to the effect of "I'll support corporate personhood after I see Texas execute a corporation". I'm definitely misremembering but you get the sentiment, haha
Don't forget paying their way out of crimes and no applicability to three strikes laws.
> a corporation refusing to take responsibility for literally anything. How passe
Versus all the natural people at the highest echelons of our political economic system valiantly taking responsibility for fuckall?
> Versus all the natural people
We can at least hold them responsible.
> We can at least hold them responsible
We don’t. (We can also hold corporations responsible. We seldom do.)
The problem isn’t in the form of legal entity fraud and corruption wears.
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You can try, but you might be unknowingly holding their carefully designated scapegoat responsible instead.
I certainly didn't imply that to be the case and I'm not sure how you could draw that conclusion from 2 whole sentences.