We’ve finally automated the one thing executives wanted most: plausible deniability. Profits go to the human owners, bad decisions go to the algorithm, and victims get to sue a corporate shell with a chatbot for a CEO. Delaware isn’t building the future of business. It’s building the ultimate accountability escape room.
I.e. delware’s rasion d’etre for decades anyway. A tax haven banana state with no identity beyond being the place people register businesses.
Except nothing in this is plausible, just plenty of people who are not company executives want the same thinking they’ll get their shot at doing something with no responsibility.
“Welcome back to this week’s episode of ‘What Could Possibly Go Wrong?’, and, oh boy, do we have a juicy one for you tonight!”
Sounds like this will be used to break laws and avoid responsibility. Just point to the black box to avoid fines and jail. A loophole for society to decend in to lawlessness and more corruption.
If you drive drunk, that’s an offense even without causing road accidents. These people not only think this shouldn’t be so when offloading decisions to a text predictor with different patterns of mistakes, they also seem to seriously mention possibility there should be no responsibility when those mistakes happen.
So nobody is responsible for a technology that runs all our digital systems…wtf fuck are we doing?
Racing to the bottom
According to Ayn Rand, the favorite philosopher of the techbros, any regulation - including the most sensible ones - are made by mean and jealous people wanting to see kind and successful people fail.
Ayn Rand is just a bolshevik inverted, but this aside, maintaining responsibility of a person for what they do with a new tool is not regulation.
No, cause you see. Governments are violence and violence can only be used against direct violence (ie. shooting someone who shoots someone). Since this is social violence, that means that governments can’t do anything. If you don’t want unaccountable robot-run companies, you gotta bootstrap yourself to the highest echelon of society and stop it by being more efficient and profitable than them! /s
Gods, I hate how much I fell for that shit as a teenager
I still fall for “that shit” if you mean libertarianism and not Ayn Rand (of that author I have the same opinion I had when first reading her book, it’s hongweibing levels of intelligence).
Libertarianism is very strictly based on personal responsibility for one’s decisions. And someone playing with a “young nuclear physicist” set near others is being pretty much violent even when no accidents happen. Combining these two, it’s pretty direct violence.
That’s not allowing even for a moment the thought that a person who turned on a machine that made an effect on the world loses one bit of responsibility for that effect because they used a machine.
wtf fuck
I choose to believe the first “f” stands for “fuckity”.
Of course it’s Delaware
For those who don’t know, delaware is basically three taxhavens in a trenchcoat pretending to be a state.
This move is Delaware taking a bold step into 21st century ways of hiding the crimes and wealth of the rich.
The legal fiction of the corporate shield is leading our species to its doom. Profit without accountability encourages destructive behavior.
What’s the better idea? Without that legal fiction, new businesses would grind to a screeching halt and the entrenched monopolies would be even more powerful, as if that isn’t the root of our economic problems already.
Without that legal fiction, new businesses would grind to a screeching halt
Thats not true though. The world abounded in businesses before the modern corporation and it will after.
There’s no way that making the board or c-suite personally liable could increase the power of monopolies. It would encourage smaller corps with less centralized risk.
What do you mean by “corporate shield”? Are you referring to limited liability? Corporations are still accountable for the laws that they break.
I think they mean the corporate veil that is typically assumed, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
It provides a layer of liability protection for the personal assets of the humans behind the company when it comes to debts. But it also provides protection from criminal liability in many cases when it comes to horrible non-financial crimes.
Um, how? Corporations don’t care if they go under. They also don’t care if they commit genocide or are responsible for major industrial disasters.
Make infinite money. Make no mistakes.
After investigation it was discovered the AI was designed to extract maximum profit fo the owners and hide business failings until it collapsed, leaving investors and creditors holding the debt.
The courts fined the owners $50 each.
Repeat.
Just like all the crypto, AI, and app scams these days.
Make big promises to inverstors, make a memecoin, steal all the data, pump and dump with the money and the courts don‘t do shit. Seems to be the Zoomer business model. Well, Trump‘s MAGA losers too.
The real scam was capitalism?
The scam is stupid voters not putting in politicians that look after their best interests. Any economic system can and will be twisted to funnel money upwards. In any case, if you’re American you are not experiencing capitalism. People often say oligarchy, I think plutocracy is more on point, but it ain’t capitalism.
It sure is capitalism, just late stage, but not quite terminal yet. Slavery hasn’t been relegalized yet like the Dark Enlightenment dorks work towards every day.
So financialization.
Rentseeking with extra steps.
More and more, alleged captains of industry are showing themselves to be confidence players who just defend capitalism because they got lucky in it.
How long before an AI decides to sell drugs online? I wonder how the courts will handle it?
Just a little cocaine. As a treat.
We can call that AI “Dread Pirate Robot”
Shut down that exact business and imprison the head AI model, probably.
At first, I wondered why Comer would be opposing this sort of oligarchy-engineering. Maybe he’s just sniffing around to get his cut? But it could be Niemöller’s ghost finally rising to a level that reaches Comer.
And the CEO said:
- First they came for the artists, and I did not speak out because I have no heart.
- Then they came for the writers, and I did not speak out because I have no soul.
- Then they came for the actors, and I did not speak out because I have no emotions.
- Then they came for the software engineers, and I did not speak out because I have no mind.
- Then they came for the infosec people, and I did not speak out because I have no wisdom.
- Then they came for me. And the artists, writers, actors, software engineers, and infosec people laughed derisively at me. So I called James Comer.
The oligarchs might love this, but the third string C-suite execs that dine with Comer at the finest gas-station barbecue place in Paducah? The AIs have finally come for them.
Delaware is the state where a bunch of companies are legally but not physically headquartered, ro evade state taxes and regulations.
States need to rethink their tax laws for companies: If you do business here, you pay taxes here.
My former employer was a Delaware corporation, the company still has to pay our state taxes.
According to Wikipedia: Delaware charges no income tax on corporations not operating within the state, so taking advantage of Delaware’s other benefits does not result in taxation. At the same time, Delaware has a particularly aggressive tax on banks that locate in the state. However, in general, the state is viewed as a positive location for corporate tax purposes because favorable laws of incorporation allow companies to minimize corporate expenditures.
So, yeah, I was oversimplifying.
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Delaware Delamain.
I can earn credits tracking rogue taxis
They’re really rushing to leave the bleakest cyberpunk distopia in the dust.
An AI led business is a very important building block of rogue AI finishing off humankind. How else will it secure enough unsupervisable compute?
I hate it how these people take every warning of things that could go wrong as advise for policy.
Dr. Guillotine would like a word…
