PhilGoetz comments on Are you a Democrat singletonian, or a Republican singletonian? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 02 October 2009 09:02:11AM *  3 points [-]

Some people are in favor of creating a singleton AI to rule the universe. [...] Republicans and Democrats would both want a singleton to take care of them; just in different ways. Those who don't want a singleton at all would be Libertarians.

This quote (especially the last sentence) shows total lack of understanding of what "ruling the universe" by AI is about. It's not about tribal chiefs and liberty, no. You won't find a technical description of how things should be in the history books -- only crazy dogma and clumsy rules of thumb.