I think it’s the opposite: people with lots of technical knowledge and little legal knowledge (but who believe the former grants them mastery of the latter) trying to create “one weird trick” workarounds to avoid legal responsibility, not understanding that the law doesn’t work that way.
I'm not sure it's even at that level of rationality. People just don't think bad things will happen to them, either through naivety or a mistaken belief that they're so superior they'll never be caught. Jail is something that happens to other people, stupid people, not to me.
I think people are either too worried about things like this or not worried enough - no middle. For every time I've heard of rich people thinking they can get away with ridiculous scandals I've also heard someone being discouraged from legitimate economic activity because what if some really unlikely thing happens and lands them in jail for dumb reasons.
The latter type of people don't become businessmen, of course, so the selection bias is for the businessmen to all be from the unworried people.
His response is absurd. This is no different than having a human associate draft a document for a partner and then the partner shrugging their shoulders when it's riddled with errors because they didn't bother to check it themselves. You're responsible for what goes out in your name as an attorney representing a client. That's literally your job. What AI can help with is precisely this first level of drafting, but that's why it's even more important to have a human supervising and checking the process.
That's not a counter-example to the judgment reasoning you highlight: everyone entering a night club is there to enter a night club, not everyone entering a K-mart is there to get a refund.
Everyone trying to enter K-mart is trying to enter K-mart just like the night club. Everyone going into the night club is not there to drink/meet someone/dance/use the restroom/make a drug deal Just like not everyone going into K-Mart is there to shop/browse/by a snack/get a refund/steal something
"Some things happen, an space station happens, some AI happens, and in the end, our protagonist figures out that he's kind of insignificant despite being there for all of it."
As you say, it's obvious to pretty much anyone who's ever worked a day in their life but, at the same time, culturally we pretend otherwise. Guys like Musk or Bloomberg talk about working 90 hour weeks and sleeping under their desks. We still want the cultural myth of hard work = success, whatever the reality is, because this allows those who've achieved economic gain to feel better about themselves.
It's a cultural and messaging issue, you have to tear down the illusion and performance art. Bloomberg is 83, Jamie Dimon is 69, these folks holding court age out eventually. The work is in pushing the Overton window over time about the meaning, purpose, and value of work, as well as how it is performed. "What does the data show? What matters?"
(I exclude Musk in my example because his cult of personality is on a different level than the usual work effort cult pushed by the usual business suspects).
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