Monday, October 18, 2010

Do you hate our current form of government?

There are a lot of serious socialists in the Technoprogressive community. While I readily acknowledge that the political centers of power have become highly compromised and sometimes even impotent in their abilities to carry out the functions that they were originally designed for, it is my contention that highly regulated capitalism and democracy lend us the best chance to evolve past the need for reliance on the easily-biased human mind, and that if we ever end up designing a governance computer system, or even a governance AI, we could potentially make it better than human-brained officials who lack the capacity on the chemical level to remain objective or take in the flood of information necessary in our modern world to perform their jobs.


A lot of people object to this "Technocracy" idea by pointing out that a machine may not necessarily weigh human life into its cold, mechanistic calculations, but I maintain that a system (and it does not need to be a perfect one that never makes errors, I'm not saying that that's possible) could, over time, be created in such a way to do its job: "governance", in the same way that "black box trading", or trading with unpoliced algorithmically-guided machines, has largely taken over the stock market today- where the boxes has been hardwired not to compromise the profit margin by waiting a few extra microsecond to buy or sell a share.

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