Would you be in favor of being ruled by machinery if it was benevolent? Mecha can't be bribed or blackmailed and base judgments in logic so they'd make for better politicians than people.
Would you be in favor of being ruled by machinery if it was benevolent?
> benevolent
> base judgements in logic
Those things are mutually exclusive.
Your statement is false. If your goal is to be benevolent, then decisions that result in a benevolent outcome would be logical.
That's not how logic works moron.
Trolley problem.
Even if it isn't benevolent.
i've read the culture novels. i welcome it.
Probably not. Machines can't be bribed, but they can be hacked, they can't be blackmailed, but they can be badly programmed and end up making errors in judgement because of flawed internal logic. More than that, cold logic is fine when applying rules in a general sense, but the lack of lived experience means there's no room for imagination in applying those rules selectively or creatively as desired. Which could be worse than human politicians.
>and end up making errors in judgement because of flawed internal logic.
Truly this would be unprecedented in a ruler.
The literal point is that it wouldn't, and that machines are vulnerable to the same problems for different reasons.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom not the end.
If Spock's so smart, how come he was in Trek 2009?
Because only an idiot would say no to the dump truck of money must have offered him to show up, speak like 8 lines and then knock off.
You can't just show up and be correct like that.
Yeah but human politicians can get Abe'd whereas if a faulty machine politician has backups we're fricked.
>in logic
Programmed by whom?
The most important question.
Isn't that just the plot of Wall-e?
It seems to work out well for the most part in the robots/foundation series but I haven't finished robots and empire and foundation and earth yet
Depends. Do I get a robogirl wife in return for compliance?
You haven't watched/read Towards the Terra, I believe?
No political system or government structure is free of error; even more with a 'perfect' machine lording over people that can reprogram it instead of bribing it — or even build it with some sort of backdoor on its programming or an exception so a select few can use it at their whim. Even if you take the most utopic example of a machine that makes decisions for humans built by a superior being far away from the whims of man, it is bound to be replaced, rejected or destroyed by people against it; humans are not part of an overmind and it is in their nature to change, to want different thing, to never settle for anything.
A bit of a vent here, but I hate people with the childlish idea of having the State watch every move they make and take every decision for them because they feel safe and secure, with AI being an extended fantasy of this. Yet here we are, on a board where we love oversized toys.
Robot sex so yes.
Possibly of them using you as battery and hook you up to the matrix so then you can experience the horror of waking up in the real world in the pod. Yes.
sure, why not? even better if they can turn me into a robot
Are the robots cool?
I say no gracias to slavery.