Would it be possible to appoint a dictator, who has no other incentive other then serve the people. For ex, they ll sever every human relation, cannot own property, will have zero privacy, cannot reproduce and have children etc. But they ll be held to the highest honor and their every needs taken care of...
In short, something like the life of a religious saint or a nun.
Short answer: your idea probably won't last long.
Will you turn over your leadership to the machines? Humans are so bad at it.
Translates to: Will you turn over your leadership to the humans running the machines?
I like the theory of a perfectly impartial AI dictator. However, I don't believe such a thing is possible since it must be programmed by people and carries any biases (deliberate or accidental) those people program into it.
Read Hobbes' Leviathan, it discusses this. A prerequisite for success the sovereign must establish a state religion, subjects comply or are executed.
And then John Locke, with emphasis on consent of the governed.
And why not the Catholic Church? The pope is essentially what you describe but they have been many bad Popes. Nevertheless as an institution it endures, with and without justice.
A sovereign who is completely selfless would not be a human. So you're necessarily searching for deities or an off worlder. And when they're done? Who then? Sounds chaotic and capricious.
All human beings have survival instincts. But we manages to build soldiers that are willing to risk their lives for random stuff. Right?
In such way, it might be possible to build, or grow, generations of such people, completely selfless..
Even if the cause might be a good one, we still value our individuality over mass enforced and indoctrinated conformism. It might be anything but harmonic, and quite chaotic, but individuality gives us a diversity of ideas and views, thus enabling adaptability, which is one of homo sapiens sapiens biggest advantages.
I'll always take a corrupt politician over a benevolent dictator.
Please provide some support for that deeply subjective statement.
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Most horrible? It doesn't seem unreasonable to use body count of a country's own citizens as a proxy for "horror".
Am I wrong in saying that if you have enough resources, corrupt politicians and authorities will let you dictate the affairs under them?
So a dictator, as you say exerciser their power to enforce their own agenda. While a corrupt politician sells them off to the highest bidder, to enforce what ever agenda they have...
The only thing better in that scenario is that the "highest bidder" may have an incentive to not kill droves of people, since they probably have a business to run, and that often require people..Also, business does not really have an ideology or a philosophy. It just need to grow its profits..
And as we see, even in the USA as we speak it’s easy to take some rights from the people without too much fuss (just enough distraction).
