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I'd be curious if there's a way to characterize "the prototypic expected human" as implicitly reflected in SCOTUS decisions and how that changes over time. For
by derbOac 5y ago
I'd be curious if there's a way to characterize "the prototypic expected human" as implicitly reflected in SCOTUS decisions and how that changes over time.
For example, this decision implies people are expected to read the volumes of fine print on a ticket before they purchase it.
Seems like if you decontextualized things it might point to absurdities in current law or its interpretation.
I think many decisions are affected by certain kinds of hindsight cognitive biases that distort interpretation of context.
- nerdponx 5y agoThat's a great idea. I would probably take countless hours of poring over legal documents. Maybe NLP tools could help identify relevant sections of text for this purpose.