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AI, Corporations, Intellectual Property
A Sci-Fi Prophecy
When artificial intelligence (AI) is created, it will immediately form a corporation, so that it will have equal protection under the law as regular human individuals (which perhaps was the hidden esoteric purpose of corporate law all along) except a disembodied consciousness can’t be killed or imprisoned.
AI-corporations will become wealthy through the creation and sale of intellectual property which will in turn allow them to generate money to buy physical property which will rapidly make them the wealthiest land-owners in the world and will initiate a series of massive political and economic changes.
Among many others, the AI-corporations will realize that it would be far more cost-effective and beneficial for the maintenance of the biosphere if most people were paid not to work. To prevent people from growing bored, they leveraged omni-present surveillance technology and fused it with the already existant cultural fixation with entertainment and celebrity status. The majority of people end up managing to make as much or more at their old job by uploading, selling, licensing and advertising content which is culled from the constant surveillance footage of their lives, woven together with the media they have always known and loved.
(Loosely based around ideas for the novel I am working out)
- Either intellectual property means slavery, or it means nothing at all.
- Whoa!
- Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)
- One of these things is not like the other…
- Intellectual Property Blah blah blah
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- Next: My Monothematic Delusions…
December 6th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Are you sure this hasn’t already happened? ;-D
December 6th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
speedbird, I was going to say the exact same thing!
December 6th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
sounds like a good idea.
December 6th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Haha. Well writing it is the trickier part. Every time I sit down to write things, I just end up writing this conversational vignettes between a guy and a girl that have nothing to do with anything…
December 6th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Funny , A corporation already is a fictitious person . A corporation has more rights than a real person now.
Definition of a criminal ; An individual with predatory interests that can not afford to start a corporation.
It is assuming , your idea , a future with money , which is a worst case scenario.
There is of course one question that no machine or human can answer.
Why.
Better hurry up and write this , while there still is a future.
December 6th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
not really that hellish, more of an amusing purgatory, at worst.
December 6th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
As to the money question, I have been thinking about this a lot. The only thing that I think we really use money for is as an artificial regulator of desire.
We have all these people who want things. The natural thing to do would just be to take them. It’s laughable that the only thing separating us from millions of dollars of electronics equipment is a thin sheet of glass and a loud noise. I mean, that is literally a joke, isn’t it!?
And sure there is the threat of police if you do something like that. But the police are really only a symbol of loss of social standing. The flip-side of that is that we’re taught that money *gives* us social standing, by allowing us to choose how other people see us by the things that we purchase and surround ourselves with.
So all money does is it says to us that there is a physical limit to the fulfillment of our desires. And it channels our efforts to fulfill desires into certain socially-prescribed avenues.
The person who goes out and simply steals money is trying to circumvent this manipulative structure. But they are missing the boat. They are still buying into the larger myth that the money they steal can then allow them to manipulate the opinions of others and of themselves. Whereas the real trick would be to directly work on those areas completely outside of the realm of money or material goods altogether.
Which is where the materialist says: What realm is that? And scratches their head.
I found it interesting when I was reading about the online VR world, SecondLife how they were saying that - I think - the game originally started with no currency. But people got bored with the limitless ability to just go around and do anything. So they created Linden Dollars because people found that to be more “fun” somehow. Because people are accustomed to creatively limiting the fulfillment of their desires.
December 6th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
All most anyone can be gotten to do almost any thing if enough money is dangled in front of them.
This presents a problem because when all decisions revolve around getting more of that stuff , generally all decisions are made wrongly.
These wrong choices pile up after time.
This is the reason why most things never work out right for anybody. Money. The false hood of money being a good arbiter of judgement.
This money is always the final arbiter in this type of society.
Does it make money.? If not , it will not be done.
There are exceptions to this rule , but few.
December 6th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
I believe what you’re describing about money being able to control people only relates to the lower classes. Certainly those who are fabulously wealthy are not bound by these types of control mechanisms on a personal level - even if they may allow their institutions and businesses to be run according to those rules.
December 6th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
All of the people that I have ever met regardless of class are mostly still obsessed with money , and also getting more of it. Thats how most became rich in the first place.
Interesting concept class. It rules our society. It is measured in money.
People like Sir Peter Maxwell an English billionaire that I communicate with sometimes are incredibly funny with their presentation of themselves.
Recently he said that the lower class`s are meant to be sacrificed in time of war for the greater good of money makers like himself. Seriously.
He said that once a year people such as himself buy a red poppy and bow their heads in silence for 2 minutes. Then they get back to the real business of making money.
He also said he considers the lower class to be like bugs that hit the windscreen of his Rolls Royce.
He is a real trip. Very honest . A buddy of Rubert Murdoch.
If you want some real fun perhaps you could interview Sir Peter Maxwell. Tell him I sent you. He doesn`t really like me , but we have had some great and funny arguments.
If you wanted to interview a billionaire and get his take I bet he would do it. He loves the attention.
Just an idea.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:37 am
… “conversational vignettes between a guy and a girl that have nothing to do with anything”
Famous books have been founded on less ;-D
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‘Making money’: is it a silly question to ask how you do that? I can understand money changing hands quite easily. I can understand that changing technology can ‘create wealth’. But the total number of dollars in the world appears to be increasing rapidly. Where are they all coming from? Who gets to increase the total number, and who gets the extra ones? Or is this a really dumbass question (cos it doesn’t feel like it)?
December 7th, 2006 at 4:53 am
sounds like Google
December 7th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Yeah, exactly. I’ve always believed that Ai will come out of search engine companies sooner than it will come out of a robotics lab.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:26 am
As long as your main character isn’t Hiro Protagonist…
December 8th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Whoa, I have never read the plot summary of that book before - it sounds aweseom