Bugmaster comments on Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bugmaster 02 January 2013 08:54:24PM 0 points [-]

Obviously, I would have many, many little bank accounts, managed separately and in parallel, under many different identities.

I believe that this would severely limit your financial throughput. You would be able to buy lots of little things, whose total cost is quite significant -- for example, you could buy yourself a million cheap PCs, each costing $1000. But you would not be able to buy a single expensive thing (at least, not without exposing yourself to instant retribution), such as a satellite costing $1e9.

Comment author: loup-vaillant 03 January 2013 11:02:41AM 0 points [-]

Currently, there are ways to create companies anonymously. This is preventing (or at least slowing down to a crawl) retribution right now. If all this company apparently does is buying a few satellites, it won't be at great risk.