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Corporations are not humans. And while sociopaths - who benefit the most from corporations - technically are humans, I don't consider them parts of humanity, more like a cancer tissue on top of it. So whatever benefit humanity gets is more than cancelled by the growing cancer.
The concept of "sociopaths" is more of a cop-out than anything. It amounts to a (vaguely pseudoscientific) dehumanization of those whose modus operandi transgresses our values most severely. Imagining a subset of the population as literal cancer cells does not help us understand better the systemic issue which makes those people benefit disproportionately from metahuman entities (such as corporations or political agg…
Re: AI may be making us think and write more alike
#271What are cancer cells, but a subset of cells whose modus operandi transgresses our values? They're not some unique abomination, and I think the analogy is apt.