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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 16:44:34 JST Aral Balkan

   Machines aren’t taking over. Corporations are taking over.

   Worry about the right thing.

   #corporatocracy #ai

   • niuulianov repeated this.
   • IAG (iagondiscord@wetdry.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 22:06:47 JST IAG

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     @aral corporations HAVE taken over

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 22:13:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jeff Green

     @jgreen And yet the tool, itself, is not neutral either.

     The tool is shaped to service the needs of those who pay for the tool to be made.

   • Jeff Green (jgreen@indieweb.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 22:13:35 JST Jeff Green

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     @aral A tool, like any other, depends upon whose hands it's in and what they intend to do with it.

   • Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 22:14:40 JST Urzl

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     @aral Corporations are an immortal competing species that consumes humans both as dray animals and as food.

     They are everything we were afraid of AI being but they're already here and well established.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 22:14:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Urzl

     @gooba42 💯

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 22:15:47 JST Aral Balkan

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     • DamoreW
     • 𓃣Cultor 👑 🥀

     @CDeorum @DamoreW Wow, cuntish much?

   • 𓃣Cultor 👑 🥀 (cdeorum@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 22:15:54 JST 𓃣Cultor 👑 🥀

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     • DamoreW

     @DamoreW @aral because if it wasn’t a way of living, you’d have already revolted.
     Instead, you’re privileged enough to sit around complaining about your “class war” for likes on your handheld computer, while real life goes on around you.

   • damorew@mastodon.social's status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 22:15:55 JST DamoreW

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     @aral no war but class war!!!
     . . the question is. . why are we still allowing and promoting it as a way of living???

   • RobExmoor (robexmoor@toot.community)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 16:24:38 JST RobExmoor

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     @aral corporations are the machines of those whose only goal in life is to enrich themselves.
     However, they are also an expression of cooperative working that has helped humanity to create a world that can comfortable sustain a massive population.
     For corporations to perform more of the second task, we (the masses) have to insist on strong democracies and global cooperation.
     One does not keep the cow in the living room. It stays in the meadow behind a sturdy fence.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 16:24:38 JST Aral Balkan

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     • RobExmoor

     @RobExmoor Sadly, in this analogy, we are the cows.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:18:23 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Gabriel Marin

     @gbrlmarn https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHoLopZSYJw

   • Gabriel Marin (gbrlmarn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:18:24 JST Gabriel Marin

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     @aral #technofeudalism

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:33:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Quincy
     • a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     • Charlie Stross

     @clacke @quincy @cstross @pluralistic Corporations are institutional psychopaths.

   • a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:33:17 JST a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Quincy
     • Charlie Stross

     @quincy Yes, @cstross , @pluralistic and Ted Chiang have all referred to corporations as a form of slow AI that executes on a substrate of humans and paperwork. As far as I remember seeing, they each credit the other two with coming up with the analogy. 😊

     @aral

   • Quincy (quincy@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:33:18 JST Quincy

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     • Charlie Stross

     @aral Aren't corporations machines too? 😁
     (I remember @cstross making that argument in a keynote (IIRC))

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:18:51 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jordan Biserkov

     @jbiserkov Spot on.

   • Jordan Biserkov (jbiserkov@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:18:52 JST Jordan Biserkov

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     @aral

     “I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too. Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us. And technology and capitalism have been so closely intertwined that it’s hard to distinguish the two.”

     -- Ted Chiang

   • Mostly Linux (mostly_linux@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:29:49 JST Mostly Linux

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     @aral corporations are legal constructs comprised of people cooperating for the common goal of exchanging value for value.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:29:49 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Mostly Linux

     @mostly_linux :awesome: