Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Singularity and politics

Today's political landscape is one of hills and valleys, swamp, mires and deadly treacherous terrain. Politicians are widely recognized as being fallible and not appealing to all of the people all of the time. Government policies are decided on the personal views of a very select few people that sometimes represent, albeit not perfectly, a much larger group or, worse still, are dictated arbitrarily by despots and zealots. Politicians are always vilified by some and loved by others and all of them suck up more resources than they ought to as individuals.
Where would politics go if the world were administered by artificial intelligence? There would be no need to elect a representative or a president because the administration would take place in a clear, unambiguous and logical manner. The administration system could accept, process and implement the overall wishes of the world's population every day by adjusting the state of law according to the current wishes of the population.
It would be possible to make a very few simple rules such as:

#1 No intelligent entity shall harm another with physical or mental violence.
#2 No human will be denied medical treatment unless they desire such treatment to be withheld.
#3 Wherever possible and discounting violent accident, no human will suffer pain at the end of their life.
#4 No human will be denied food and water enough to sustain them in good health.
#5 Priority will be given to the protection of children from physical and mental harm
#6 The natural environment of flora and fauna will be maintained for the greatest benefit of humanity.
#7 Each intelligent entity will be allowed to satisfy its desires as long as those desires comply with the preceding rules.



Those rules, applied with logic from an AI administration would generally suffice to maintain the population of the world and to allow it to expand quickly into the solar system and in the fullness of time, out into the greater universe.

Of course, a vast cry of  "COMMIE BASTARD" is being raised, even now from the capitalist readership of this blog but they are the people who expect as their right to exploit others as much as possible within or even without the bounds of a legal framework for their own self enrichment and self aggrandizement. Enough said really.


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