(This is one of those "obvious but accepted inefficiencies in capitalism" because a banked business in the United States has already told the bank enough to fill out a W-9 in almost all cases but for boring reasons that info is not sent with payments.)
@patio11
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Money Movement: Technical Ease vs Regulatory Complexity
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This thread brought to you by the many years in the payments field which suggest that actually moving money around is frequently easy and navigating the corporate/social/legal/tax implications of money movement is often the harder part.
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Enterprise Vendor Management Systems vs Simpler Economic Alternatives
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This is so, so much nicer than the analogous process that happens in most vendor management (TM) systems. (The Enterprise has reason to use those, sadly, but thankfully much of the economy does not need to.)
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Copyright Disclaimers as Empty Rituals in Digital Culture
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In some places it moves from a ritual to something akin to a tick, like the YouTubeism “I don’t intend copyright.” (when posting something which is definitely copyrighted, by someone else)
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Email Retention Tradeoffs: Certainty vs Data Loss
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The steelman is “We’re going to trade certainty in not having Oops Can’t Find That Email What Could Possibly Have Happened for certainty in Of Course We Won’t Have A Six Year Old Email.”
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Trustee Execution: LLM vs Bash Scripts in Trust Law
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And whether that program is an LLM fine tuned on your wishes or a 100 line bash script is irrelevant from the purposes of trust law. The trustee, a person or company, is diligently executing upon your (human) wishes.
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Legal Trust Framework for Autonomous AI Program Execution
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I think “an AI version of oneself” Is quite beyond our state of the art but you could certainly create a trust which told a trustee “Execute the following computer program, updating the version of it you use at your discretion, with the following inputs, then ~do the output.”
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Smart Contracts for Trust Documents and Charitable Transfers
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I’m using smart contract in a humorous and non-standard function to describe a trust document. You can insert a paragraph of model language, or any other paragraph of English, into a trust document to send value to (wlog) a Catholic parish or their successor institution(s).
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Separation of Concerns in Expense Management Systems
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In form that doesn’t look like using Concur or the Excel report this salaryman burned a hundred hours of his life on over the years (physically printed then physically stamped) but in function that is separation of concerns, written persistent record, contemporaneously maintained
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FTX Scandal: Startup Story or Unique Crisis?
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More broadly, I think one interesting lens on the FTX affair is the extent to which it is every startup story ever and the extent to which it really, really is not. Takes a rare combination of experiences to let someone say WTF at only the correct parts of the story.