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An ai rabbit hole is called what?

22 Thursday May 2025

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So what do you call an ai rabbit hole?….. “The concept of corporate personhood is a legal doctrine that grants certain rights and responsibilities to corporations, similar to those held by natural persons.”
… so I go a little deeper


“A person is recognized as having certain rights and responsibilities from birth, whereas a corporations legal standing is derived from and defined by the laws under which it was formed.”
…. ok, maybe deeper

“The issue of campaign donations by corporations is significantly intertwined with the legal doctrine of corporate personhood, particularly in the context of the First Amendment  guarantee of free speech.”
…and the deepyest yet ….

“A key element in the debate is the legal concept that spending money in political campaigns constitutes a form of free speech. The argument is that by donating to or spending money to support or oppose candidates or political ideas, corporations are expressing their views.”

Happiness as a psychiatric disorder

22 Thursday Oct 2020

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From the Journal of Medical Ethics comes an article that is very much tongue in cheek about how disorders are classified. A whole other issue in the area of psychiatric classifications is how certain disorders seem to be ‘popular’, i.e. lots of people get diagnosed with a certain classification. From what I am told Bi-polar is all the rage for the last 15 to 20 years. Abstract from the article below.crazekitty

A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder.

Abstract

It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type. In a review of the relevant literature it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and probably reflects the abnormal functioning of the central nervous system. One possible objection to this proposal remains–that happiness is not negatively valued. However, this objection is dismissed as scientifically irrelevant.