"We'll simply create a perfect dictator and put it in charge."

· Bits and Bobs 4/7/25
  • "We'll simply create a perfect dictator and put it in charge."
    • There is no such thing as a good dictator.
    • It's impossible.
    • The problem with a dictator is there is no room for error.
    • If there is any error, there's no way for the system to self-correct.
      • The power structure precludes it.
    • But nothing is infallible.
    • Imagine you thought other parties were going to try to make a perfect dictator oracle, and they just might succeed.
    • Now you'd be locked in a race to make a dictator for the human race, because yours would be a good one, and the competitors' would be the bad one.
    • Everyone thinks their own candidate is intrinsically good, because they created it.
    • An infinitely powerful dictator is a winner take all, so it becomes a totalizing quest to install yours first before the baddies do.
    • An emergent arms race to install a dictator.