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>A large part of software engineering consists in finding the right abstractions to think about a problem, and when one leaks that badly, it's generally and ind
by vharuck 6y ago
>A large part of software engineering consists in finding the right abstractions to think about a problem, and when one leaks that badly, it's generally and indication that one is thinking about the problem wrong.
Any law about content moderation is ripe for being gamed, so I don't think a hard definition can ever suffice. Think of libel: very hard to prove because it requires clear falsehoods, intent, and expression. So plenty of people, especially politicians, have learned to walk the line. They can legally convince people that their opponents are space aliens who stomp on apple pies and interrupt baseball games.
A better example for this "adaptive" kind of law is online gaming. If a player uses an exploit to gain an advantage, the developer will often correct that exploit. When developers stop pushing bugfixes, the game often ends up being dominated by whatever exploits were left. For law, legal precedent is like a bugfix.
- murbard2 6y agoI don't necessarily disagree with anything you said. To continue your analogy about games, if your games requires constantly coming up with new rules and the rule book ends up being thousands of pages long, it's a poorly designed game. How many bug fixes have been made to chess (the answer is not zero, but also not many either). The point is that a model which requires constant bug-fixes is one that generalizes poorly which is a symptom that you are capturing the wrong abstraction.