jim bell wrote:
At 07:24 AM 9/24/96 -0700, Dale Thorn wrote:
Lessee if I have this right, now. We have basically three scenarios: 1. Allow the status quo to continue (the justice system scam now run by Janet Reno/Louis Freeh types et al. 2. Allow the people some democracy in applying justice through AP. 3. Sometime in the future, build the Gort(?) robots, as in The Day The Earth Stood Still, and let them do the job.
That's about it. I long ago noticed the similarity between AP and the fictional Gort. Problem is, Gort would have to be programmed. How would you write such a program? Governments would want their hand in it. They'd insist on "government exceptions" to rules, like: "All violence is forbiddden! (except for violence by duly authorized government employees!)" Not very practical.
Indeed it may not be practical to try such a program on current computers. I've had thoughts for some time about an analogy where each person in a civilization represents a cell in a single brain, and so on, so perhaps AP is merely a portion of the program for this "brain". As to what happens when you try to concentrate a disproportionate amount of the programming task into a few hands, that appears to be the situation we have now.