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by peterldowns 120 days ago
you may enjoy reading Nick Land, he has written about very similar ideas, specifically the idea that corporations and even "capital" can be considered AI in many ways.
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The flow of ideas goes both ways between AI and economy. Notably, the economist Friedrich Hayek [1] was a source of inspiration in the development of AI.

He wrote in 1945 on the idea that the price mechanism serves to share and synchronise local and personal knowledge [2]. In 1952, he described the brain as a self-ordering classification system based on a network of connections [3]. This last work was cited as a source of inspiration by Frank Rosenblatt in his 1958 paper on the perceptron [4], one of the pioneering studies in machine learning.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Societ...

[3]: https://archive.org/details/sensoryorderinqu00haye

[2]: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/cogs501/Rosenblatt1958.pd...

For those who are interested, I'm researching Land's main thesis that capitalism is AI: https://retrochronic.com
Wasn't this already discovered by Bayes ?

Also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds

I second this