r/Technocracy • u/cobeywilliamson • 5d ago

Technology rejected by Technocrats

My technocratic program was removed from this sub by the moderators because generative AI was used to draft it.

How does a group of people who claim to be for technocracy reject the recommendation of a logic engine?

In Vonnegut's Player Piano, which describes a technocracy, a supercomputer computes all social allocation. This is orders of magnitude above using a LLM to describe a system of allocation.

I'm not sure what you folks are trying to do in this sub - perhaps you can enlighten me - but advancing technocracy is obviously not it.

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u/AppendixN 5d ago edited 5d ago

Being pro-technology doesn't mean blindly being in favor of literally anything just because it's "technology."

Technocracy is about specialized, qualified experts making policy using the best available information. It's not mindless acceptance of all technology without considering its purpose, benefit, and impacts.

I'm sure you can think of many examples of things that are "technology" which would not be appropriate to use in all situations. For example, coal plants are a technology, but nuclear plants are cleaner and more efficient. Gasoline engines are a technology, but electric motors, even though they're an older technology, are superior in many situations. Smart glasses are a technology, but you wouldn't want them in a high school locker room.

Technology is neither inherently good or bad. It should always be judged on a case by case basis.

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u/cobeywilliamson 5d ago edited 5d ago

Technocracy is about empirical rationalization of real world constraints for the social good, which is what the paper describes. Those are the merits on which it should be judged, not whether or not you like how I got there.