On the Need for a Giant Robot Brain

People are dicks. For whatever reason, they can’t simply just get along with each other and play nice. Therefore, at least some minimal form of government is necessary for the proper function of society.

Unfortunately, governments are composed of people, who, as previously established, are dicks, in addition to being incompetent. The greater the need and scope of governance, the greater the chance there is to fuck things up.

Therefore, I propose government by giant robot brain. Such a being could be entirely rational, (mostly) all-knowing, and it would entirely lack the stupidity so prevalent amongst ordinary meatbags.

In lieu of this robot overlord, I suppose a Vulcan could do a passable job as Supreme Leader.

Here I am, brain the size of a planet and you want to know if I can run the government? sigh Perhaps when I’m done with that I could open a door for you. Life, don’t talk to me about life…

See, but it’s people like those in the marketing department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation that provide the logical basis for my arguments. Nobody should be allowed to come up with something as stupid as Genuine People Personalities™.

Hehe, I almost added a note to clarify what I was referencing. But then I remembered this was the Dope, thanks for not letting me down! :wink:

Every time this hass been tried, there’s been intense public resistance to it.
See **the Invisible Boy

Colossus: The Forbin Project**

and several episodes of Twilight Zone.

Not to mention scads of science fiction novels and short stories.
As far as I can recall, no one ever let the experiment proceeed ASND reported on the results, so for all I know it would work perfectly. On the other hand, Our New Robot Overlord might be as bad as a human one, and we’d all end up churning out endless Sudoku puzzles, or something.