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This is exactly like the "how can I use static types when I talk to other untyped things". Computational law does not nor should it mean limiting ourself to pu
by Ericson2314 5y ago
This is exactly like the "how can I use static types when I talk to other untyped things".
Computational law does not nor should it mean limiting ourself to purely objective concepts and automatically-resolvable disputes. We can still introduce as abstract parameters all the fuzzy humanistic things we want. This just forces us to separate those from the "boring parts", which will make everything more productive. This is a lot like how with fancy dependent types you can pass around proofs of undecidable/non-computable things -- "undecidable" and "subjective" are equally bad at run-time.
Done right, right, this is also good for fairness because it's exactly to the extent the objective and subjective stuff is all mixed together that "the party with the most expensive lawyers wins". All the drudgery keeps everyone but the rich out.
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All that said, there are still immense challenges to pulling this off. Doctors and lawyers are insanely protected classes in this country --- the last, most powerful guilds --- and everything is designed against this. In "physical small repeatable goods" capitalism, well you can always try to compete end-to-end to the final consumer and slowly eck out market. But court cases and ex lawyer judges make for relatively-rare, high-risk proving ground, and foxes guarding the hen-house!
Also, I am skeptical of this beginning with contracts / private sector and not law itself / governments. The way we write programs today is like a Gustafson's law vs Amdahl's law situation in which rather than reducing complexity/mental drudgery using machines, we simply fill up our expanded capacity with more --- from hand-calculating rocket trajectories to debugging garbage bloated software stacks. If as increased corporate profits went to longer EULAs and other paperwork, this could unleash a torrent of non-sense orders of magnitude greater: please sign these 50 MiBs!