So what do we do when when nobody has a job?

[Dr Strangelove]

Does honesty require self-awareness? I don't think so. Competent? Don't you know that henceforth Microsoft is eliminating odd numbered versions and therefore all further versions will be "the good ones"? The programs will written be scientists. Science is facts, facts are by definition not prejudice, therefore the programming will be prejudice free. The AI that governs us in the future will be so massive, so advanced that it will be able to out-think mere humans. It might hack us, but not the other way around.

Imagine the brave new world where all crimes will be solved and punished swiftly. Mankind will rest safely in the embrace of cybernetic angels. It will be like heaven.

[Thoth]

Robotic police, lawyers, judges and government officials would be honest, diligent, competent, free of prejudice and incorruptible. Imagine a world where they're in charge and they hold us to the same standards.

[Dr Strangelove]

So the ideas of honesty, diligence, competence, and fairness in government terrifies you?

[kentonio]

So the ideas of honesty, diligence, competence, and fairness in government terrifies you?

If that's going to be the human equivilent of the Turing test, then we're all ****ed.

[Dr Strangelove]

It's OK kentonio, the robot government will take care of you. Ineffective methods will be discarded and replaced by effective ones.

[kentonio]

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

[pchang]

I like being the man behind the curtain.

[Thoth]

So the ideas of honesty, diligence, competence, and fairness in government terrifies you?

Enforced by robots? Hell yeah.

[Dr Strangelove]

For instance prison, rehabilitation, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology have been shown to be very ineffective at reducing criminal recidivism. A robotic government will adapt a more efficient means of treating criminals.

[C0ckney]

rehabilitation works well, but of course the root causes (lack of education/skills, addiction etc.) need to be tackled as part of such a programme.

[Dr Strangelove]

No, Apotheosis is the answer.

[C0ckney]

i bow down to no one.

[Dr Strangelove]

Apotheosis is simple - a model of your consciousness is constructed, then uploaded to "the cloud", a sort of virtual heaven, where you'll never feel pain or sorrow and won't be able to hurt anyone.

[C0ckney]

oh i see, i thought you meant it as deification, but your explanation makes more sense.

[N35t0r]

So we kill criminals, only we take a really nice picture of them beforehand?