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▲ john_strinlai 3 hours ago

>Just like boeing's execs didn't intend for their planes to fall out of the sky?

correct, i dont think any boeing exec wanted their planes to crash and then made specific choices with a clear goal of causing them to.

instead, they made negligent choices that led to unintended outcomes.

▲jsrozner 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

Agreed. But in today's world in which outcomes are well-separated from behaviors (e.g. the exec cuts testing budget and the plane crashes), I think it's time that we start treating negligence as willful.

This would have positive impacts on employees of META, Boeing, Purdue pharma and related, and the AI companies. By positive, I meant that the people whose choices are negatively affect society would actually be punished meaningfully so that they are dissuaded from taking such action. Personal liability needs to be increased as well, and to the best our ability we should ban the sale of director and officer liability insurance.