{"id":5510,"date":"2025-04-15T21:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2025-04-17T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:21:00","slug":"pluralistic-machina-economicus-14-apr-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/pluralistic-machina-economicus-14-apr-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: Machina economicus (14 Apr 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2025\/04\/14\/timmy-share\/#a-superior-moral-justification-for-selfishness\" target=\"_blank\">Pluralistic: Machina economicus (14 Apr 2025)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Arguably, we do live in the shadow of such modern demons: we call them &#8220;limited liability corporations.&#8221; These are (potentially) immortal colony organisms that treat us fleshy humans as mere inconvenient gut flora. These artificial persons are not merely recognized as people under the law \u2013 they are given more rights than mere flesh-and-blood people. They seek to expand without limit, absorbing one another, covering the globe, acting in ways that are &#8220;economically rational&#8221; and utterly wicked. As Charlie Stross says, a corporation is a &#8220;slow AI&#8221;:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/14Apr2025.jpg?w=840&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also see, as referenced in the above post:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2019\/12\/artificial-intelligence-threat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?<\/a><br \/>\nBy Charlie Stross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pluralistic: Machina economicus (14 Apr 2025) Arguably, we do live in the shadow of such modern demons: we call them &#8220;limited liability corporations.&#8221; These are (potentially) immortal colony organisms that treat us fleshy humans as mere inconvenient gut flora. These artificial persons are not merely recognized as people under the law \u2013 they are given &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/pluralistic-machina-economicus-14-apr-2025\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3061,6,7,9,2308,11,13,14,15,2249,3279,17],"tags":[129,2672,205,5077,5076,5078,5075,5080,5074,5073,5079],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5510","6":"format-standard","7":"category-environment","8":"category-ethical-and-green-living","9":"category-faits-divers","10":"category-finanace","11":"category-future-of-work","12":"category-it-failures","13":"category-politics","14":"category-racism","15":"category-science","16":"category-slavery","17":"category-the-anthropocene","18":"category-thinking-about","19":"post_tag-ai","20":"post_tag-antitrust","21":"post_tag-artificial-intelligence","22":"post_tag-cory-doctorow","23":"post_tag-enshittification","24":"post_tag-homo-economicus","25":"post_tag-ip-laws","26":"post_tag-limited-liability-corporations","27":"post_tag-mass-layoffs","28":"post_tag-regulatory-capture","29":"post_tag-yochai-benkler"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}