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lxgr
on June 24, 2024
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Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
Modeling a group of people, answerable to yet another, even larger group of people, as “a person” is what I would call even worse modeling.
robertlagrant
on June 24, 2024
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It's not that a company is a person. It's that it's multiple people, some of whom make decisions.
lxgr
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Exactly, and groups of people behave differently from a single person in many important ways.
robertlagrant
on June 24, 2024
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Yes - they have more legs. But what they are not is a homogenised mass, all as equally guilty or innocent of issues as the other. If 3 executives do something bad, those 3 executives are to blame. And not some nothing-to-do-with-people corporation.
lxgr
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I agree! That's why I didn't say "are culpable differently" but "behave differently".
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