James P. Hogan wrote about some of these concerns in his 1979 sci-fi novel "The Two Faces of Tomorrow". Sadly the biggest taken-for-granted idea from his novel that now seems fantastical is that governments and engineers cared about AI safety over profit (i.e. the AI developers did not try to privatize most gains while socializing most costs and most risks). From the Goodreads blurb "Midway through the 21st century, an integrated global computer network manages much of the world's affairs. A proposed major software upgrade - an artificial intelligence - will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making, but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non-human intelligence. ..."

You raise a deep issue worthy of a lot of discussion when you say: " A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one."

Your points also align with my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

Monkeys are slightly faster than humans at visual processing:
https://monkeys.alloftheanimal...
"The average [monkey] visual reaction time is around 200ms to 300ms, with a median of around 215ms. ... The mean human reaction time to touch, auditory, and visual stimuli is 150 milliseconds, 170 milliseconds, and 250 milliseconds, respectively."

But dogs are much faster:
https://humanbenchmark.me/test...
"The table below shows approximate response times to visual or tactile stimuli, drawn from published research: ...
Dog 60-100 ms Behavioral studies
Human (trained) 150-200 ms Cognitive research
Human (average) 250-300 ms Our test data"

So, if dogs are at least two to three times faster than monkeys, (I had heard elsewhere dogs are about seven times faster than humans), that means maybe dogs are even faster than crows?

I have to wonder about cat reaction time too? The table says cats are like twice as fast as dogs:
"Cat (domestic) 20-70 ms Behavioral studies"

Faster reaction time might help dogs and especially cats catch birds to eat them?

Anyway, so I think the implication in the quote from the article that avian brains are generally faster then mammal brains may not be well-supported given not enough species (both avian and mammalian) were compared?

Honestly, the employers were the first to start racing for the bottom there. For years they have relied on employees having an outdated sense of loyalty to the company that hasn't reciprocated in decades.

Much of the criticism of GenZ in the workplace is really just them giving to the employer what the employer offers them. Perhaps it's time for government to re-take its essential role in leveling the playing field so new players can enter the market and push the dinosaurs into their richly deserved tar pits.

Id doesn't NECESSARILY debase the social fabric. But if it does things like buying crooked inspectors to overlook sub-standard materials, buying off a zoning board to basically take over a residential area (*cough* datacenters *cough*), pays sub-standard wages under the table to people who 'need' to keep a low profile, and then when something goes wrong, scampers off leaving an impoverished shell behind to go bankrupt so the public has to pay for the clean-up, yes it debases the social fabric.

Only because legal enforcement of corporate charters seems to be dead.

There's lots of VERY profitable drug cartels as well, but I don't think we should celebrate them.

By separating the decision making from the execution, the corporation is the perfect psychopath. The structure not only allows all parties to rationalize their own guilt away, it also protects those who make unconscionable decisions from the legal consequences of their actions. That combination can only ever produce a monster. The LAST thing we need running them is someone educated to break the rules (law) when 'necessary'.

Even from the very beginnings of Capitalism, Smith admonished that corporate charters must be handed out exceedingly sparingly and they must be held strictly to their charters. Also note that all corporate charters are in legal theory supposed to be for the public good. Not just as a nice idea but as one of the mandates. A company acting against the public interest is supposed to be dissolved for violating it's charter. Clearly we have failed in that. Let's not double down on the failure by educating people in the image of the incorporated monster and putting them in charge.

There may be some use to something like the LLC, but there seems to be little economic use for corporate personhood. The only public value of a corporation (if/when it has any) is economic.

Rubbish. Most of them have a ratty couch with the least stained side of the cushions turned up (if they can decide which is least stained).

In fact, they need a warrant in spite of the courts bending over backwards to claim they don't. The Constitution doesn't have geographic limits, it applies to the U.S. government and it's agents wherever they may be.

Of course the wealthy don't want to talk about getting millions in tax breaks (to create jobs) and then creating so few jobs it would have been cheaper to just collect the taxes and pay those few people directly.

I'll just leave this here.

The Dead Kennedys wrote a song about you...

Monitor, certainly. But why would they have remote control that can set a FREEZER to 50C?

The manager would.

I guess Yandex's DR sites don't have the latest updates installed.

Given that Russia can't refine crude or deliver fuel and now it's data centers are dropping like flies, they're the ones heading for the bronze age.

Sooner or later, the oligarchs will be showing Putin the window. He's making it hard to make a dishonest buck.