Extended Essays 2021

Government by AI

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Kant’s theory of sublimity would improve this flaw of Nietzsche, in replacing the object of

admiration from chao to the power of conquering chaos. He states that beauty is associated

with forms while sublime with chaos and suffering. The dynamically sublime induces pure

terror when one is directly confronted with pain, and an exhilarating terror intermixed with

pleasure when contemplating the idea of pain from a position of safety. 19 The aesthetic

estimation of the grandeur of nature is enabled when self-preservation is not threatened.

Pleasure is also derived, when one proceeds to confront the terrible nature, from the sense of

“invio lability of our will and our supremacy over nature ” , just as the pleasure for upholding

moral laws and resisting temptations.

However, one critical flaw is that the experience of sublime is only accessible to the

psychologically strong who can endure nature, “what is called sublime by up. Comes across as

merely repellent to a person who is uncultured” . 20 Conclusively, Kant and Nietzsche suggest

the same thing which is using art and culture to train one to adapt and appreciate the horrible

nature. However, its achievability is in the same question as one of rationalist ’ s intellectual

elevation.

Government by AI

As there lacks existing cases of AI governance, I will attempt to predict its success in various

aspects of political judgments instead of using past cases. The most significant and

controversial problems AI will need to solve in the future are, to my opinion, wealth

distribution, education, and occupation distribution. Through placing AI in these situations, the

Plato’s rational governance, his Republic, is realized. A reminder that Platonic AI make

19 Kant divides sublime into the “mathematically sublime” and the “dynamically sublime”. The issue at stake only concerns the “dynamically sublime”. 20 Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy .

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