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Systems of justice are incredibly annoying, and invariably involve a lot of careful fine-tuning that goes completely out the window with every new addition. It
by vinceguidry 8y ago
Systems of justice are incredibly annoying, and invariably involve a lot of careful fine-tuning that goes completely out the window with every new addition.
It reminds me a little about how every time a new package manager comes out, the peanut gallery all chimes in with "well why don't we just use OS packaging?"
Package managers and justice systems hard-enforce legibility in a way that completely breaks the second the landscape does. You have to do the hard work of making a new one. Getting by with what you have only increases the workload on the already-busy humans. There are Debian packages for various extremely well-used Ruby gems. But somebody got motivated enough to do that work.
Similarly, if you introduce the wrong system of justice into a human social regime, it creates all kinds of perverse incentives. The task of preventing bad outcomes from perverse incentives then gets compounded onto the few extremely busy people that have to juggle being cops along with their existing jobs.