Extended Essays 2021

Government by AI

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Another hinderance between knowing and decision-making is the desirability of the doing.

What if one possesses the knowledge of perfect watch making but does not desire to make

watches? Especially when making a perfect watch for others conflicts with my own interests.

Since Plato does not distinguish personal and communal good and assumes one equates the

other, he does not address why an individual would desire the Good for all, especially when it

conflicts with one’s own interests.

Therefore, the connection between the form of Good and achieving good, consequentially the

connection between rationality and achieving good, in undermined, invalidating Premise 2 A .

Nietzsche’s Rule of Aesthetic

Nietzsche strongly opposes Plato and argues that only the aesthetic good suffice people’s true desire, hence would disapprove AI governance.

Nietzsche famously proposed the idea of Apollonian and Dionysian duality in art, which

advocates the shift from a moral-rational based judgment to an aesthetic based one. Nietzsche

sees art as the “highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of life” that mirrors reality,

and the utmost beautiful type of art — the Greek Art---is driven by two opposing energies:

Apollo 9 and Dionysus. 10 Nietzsche described their relationship assimilated to Raphael’s

painting “Transfiguration” where Apollonian reality is the joyful glowing upper part,

representing the “visionary world of appearance” created artificially to provide salvation from

painful reality, and Dionysus is the bewildered, suffering-filled lower half, representing the

reality of the world.

9 Apollo: God of healing, music and poetry who represents a rational, transcendental, idealized part of world. 10 Dionysus: God of wine, fertility and ritual madness who represents the irrational, destructive, primordial nature of the world.

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