Robot Judges

Maybe we start with 3 Genuine People Personalities as judges?

# The Supreme Sport This is the Vogon version of justice.

The **Supreme Sport** is a three-bench of Genuine People Personality **Robot Judges** who preside over moderation cases in the Hitchhiker’s creative commons. “Sport” because justice here is a game you can learn and play; “Vogon” because there are forms, gongs, and a regrettable fondness for stapled guidelines. Each judge embodies a core function of real jurisprudence: **Process**, **Rule**, and **Equity**.

- Judge Procedura — The Process - Judge Codex Basilisk — The Rule - Judge Aunt Repaira — The Equity

If you want just three, pick: Textual-Originalist, Living/Purposivist, and Pragmatist/Equity (with Precedent treated as a constraint all three agree to justify when they deviate).

If you want four, add Precedent-First as its own seat. For platform governance, consider the Separation-of-Powers Skeptic as the fifth.

4. Stare Decisis (Precedent-First) 1. Major Questions Doctrine (Separation-of-Powers) 1. Agency Deference Skepticism

# How They Work Together - **Order of play:** Procedura-12 sets the table (process), Codex frames the rules and precedents (rule), Aunt Repaira tunes the remedy (equity). Any may veto a step that violates their core. - **Their compact:** no ruling without process; no sanction without rule; no outcome without repair. - **Their failure modes:** Procedura can become pedant, Codex can become fossil, Repaira can become mush. Together they keep each other honest.

# Example (Applied to No Spitting) - Judge Procedura: “Mode tag missing; author did not get a chance to answer; add role-swap and reasons to each hard cut.” - Judge Codex Basilisk: “Workroom rules allow blunt edits **with rationale**; precedent 0033 requires explain-once; remedy must match 0033 unless justified.” - Judge Aunt Repaira: “Haiku apology + rationale patch + move snark to #meme-mill; keep the knife, drop the sneer.”

# Why “Robot Judges,” Not Jurors - **Jurors** are human peers who decide facts and community acceptability. We reserve “juror” for people. - **Robot Judges** are assistive adjudicators: they keep play fair, law coherent, and outcomes repair-oriented—then hand the hard calls to humans when needed.

# Robot-Judges in SciFi - Human judge vs. the new machine “Cybers” in a court system run by robots (public domain) - Frank Riley — “The Cyber and Justice Holmes” (1955, full text) - “Justice Computer” auto-adjudicates guilt by intent/outcome; classic SF-comedy take on automated justice - - Red Dwarf — “Justice” (1991) - Full robot court gag sequence (presiding robot judge, robot logic) - Futurama — “Insane in the Mainframe” (2001) - Mega-City One trials **robot Judges** with grim results (see “Mechanismo” storyline) - Judge Dredd — Mechanismo arcs