Post #1276749
2026-04-17 06:36 UTC
Yes hello friday!
Gotta love @pluralistic formulating things so clearly:
"Because there's a sense in which Bengio and I are worried about exactly the same thing. I'm terrified that our planet has been colonized by artificial lifeforms that we constructed, but which have slipped our control. I'm terrified that these lifeforms corrupt our knowledge-creation process, making it impossible for us to know what's true and what isn't. I'm terrified that these lifeforms have conquered our apparatus of state – our legislatures, agencies and courts – and so that these public bodies work against the public and for our colonizing alien overlords.
The difference is, the artificial lifeforms that worry me aren't hypothetical – they're here today, amongst us, endangering the very survival of our species. These artificial lifeforms are called "limited liability corporations" and they are a concrete, imminent risk to the human race."
Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) | https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/
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@aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social 2026-04-17 13:13
@abekonge@venner.network @pluralistic@mamot.fr I feel like capitalistic legal fictions like LLCs emerge entirely from slavery and land theft, from the hypocrisies of colonialism, religious bigotry, and dehumanization. They shield the privileged from the consequences of these hypocrisies, and their actions in furtherance thereof.