Until you get to the second order effects. If we want to find a cure for some disease, but we don't have enough people to do experiments on (maybe a lot of eligable prisoners died in previous trials) judges now have an incentive to hand out life sentences to people with that medical condition
replyEven just subconsciously that would have an effect
Replace judges with artificial intelligence. People are fallible. Future AI will be not. It won’t have vices, it won’t have the burden of emotions. It cannot be bribed, threatened or blackmailed.
replyJustice should be blind.
That won't create justice, only judges that forever encode current prejudices
replyThere’s literally nothing pointing towards this direction, rather the opposite.
replyAlso the problem is not only judges, but the scope of detective work being done and when the crime was discovered etc. Judging comes last, but I guess we could deploy the infallible robot police squad which will do a flawless crime scene analysis etc.
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