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=== The Paperclip Maximizer === | === The Paperclip Maximizer === | ||
A DAO running a coffee shop is pretty harmless. However, it sets precedent in that an autonomous corporation without read only human-centred, [[Tenet|tenets]] in its incorporation statement is a machine primarily built for profit and uncontrolled might play out the [[Paperclip Maximizer]] scenario envisaged by Nick Bostrom. | A DAO running a coffee shop is pretty harmless. However, it sets precedent in that an autonomous corporation without read only human-centred, [[Tenet|tenets]] in its incorporation statement is a machine primarily built for profit and uncontrolled might play out the [[Paperclip Maximizer]] scenario envisaged by Nick Bostrom. | ||
== Build Better. == | |||
As we live in a type of [[corporatocracy]], where corporates are the dominant organisational form on earth as they sell us most stuff (see '''Figure 1''' and '''Figure 2''') this may seem depressing. However, a ray of hope is to remember corporations have only been around for 0.16% of the time since humans evolved are simply inert [[machines]]. Much like a gun, corporate behaviour is only defined by the intention defined in its foundational coding, its incorporation statement, which can be rewritten. Perhaps, if one can change the primary intention, we can change the effect. Could a series of hierarchical rules ([[Tenet|tenets]]) be written as a precursor to a legally binding [[Transparent incorporation statement|incorporation statement]] lead to a creation of a machine which does ''[[Relativity of ethics|good]]?'' | |||
'''References''' | '''References''' | ||