Extended Essays 2021

Government by AI

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rationalists eventually find the Dionysus truth at the core of reality : “science and philosophy

will reach its own fallacy and turn into pure, pessimistic negation of existence.” 13 It is

unsatisfactory because it denies the essential problematic part of life and creates a better world

of absolute rationality and contentment through which to judge the apparent reality. It is logical

that one would find the apparent reality full of malice in that perspective, which causes pain

and dissatisfaction.

Nietzsche concluded that the moral system’s unrealistic expectation of the world, seeking

permeant contentment and unknowable forms, ultimate lead to disappointment and negation of

the apparent reality. 14 Schopenhauerian theodicy would fail also due to its intrinsic moral

demand of the world. 15 The alternative is the aesthetic system because Nietzsche saw the Greek

tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles were able to affirm (1) and (2) due to their dominant

evaluative criteria being aesthetic. Nietzsche implies that we must imagine the will as wicked,

but innocent child who repeat the process of creation and destruction to his aesthetic pleasure.

It follows that Nietzsche would suggest rationality is not a sufficient quality for good decision

making. The pre-assumption of a good decision is its desirability to humans. By saying that

irrational aesthetic pleasure is more desirable and satisfactory to humans than the rational,

moral pleasure which are unstable and false, Nietzsche would think that one must require

irrational, aesthetic faculties to comprehend human preference in which AIs likely lack.

Nietzsche’s radical theory is criticized for pursuing the harmful values and a reversion in moral

progress. George Santayana criticized Nietzsche in The German Mind: A Philosophical

Diagnosis of assuming whatever “is” is “right” and “ought” . Santayana accused Nietzsche of

13 Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy . 14 Nietzsche argues that the forms or the “thing in itself” is “something quite incomprehensible , and something

not in the least worth striving for. ” In On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense 15 Schopenhauer, Arthur. 1966. The World as Will and Representation .

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