Comment by zaphirplane
3 months ago
Selling something desirable has been an incentive since year dot
But this reminds me of the black mirror episode of a female that needs a subscription to live and the company keeps increasing and restricting the subscription
s7e1 Common People - the parasitic corporation is called Rivermind, and the sales rep is someone who's life was saved by the corporation.
I thought the same thing when reading this.
If big tech has taught us anything over the past couple of decades, it is that: for corporations (the first unaligned AGIs): if a perverse incentive exists, it will eventually be exploited for profit.