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You misunderstand. Law is about persuasion - which is to say it's a combination of marketing, power plays, intimidation, theatrical performance, bureaucratic pr
by TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
You misunderstand. Law is about persuasion - which is to say it's a combination of marketing, power plays, intimidation, theatrical performance, bureaucratic procedure, and politics.
The logical (verbal) reasoning element is only relevant in those situations where it can be used as a tool of persuasion. It's not the only tool, and it isn't even the most powerful one.
It is absolutely nothing like coding in any sense at all.
For example - term limits seem like an obvious solution. But how would they be administered? For whose benefit? Who chooses replacements? How often, and in what circumstances? How would recalls and impeachments work?
Legislation would have to cover all of those details and more. And the people writing the legislation would be lawyers.
Because you can't just wave a hand and say "term limits, yeh?" and expect that to solve anything.
- rgifford 4y ago> Law is about persuasion... Yep, we have an adversarial, common law system. So we measure our lawyers on their ability to manipulate regardless of the moral or social outcome. I don't think this is a facet of law in general, so much as a legal system that hasn't grown past ~1790.
- smitty1e 4y ago> a legal system that hasn't grown past ~1790 Technology varies, but the human genome is (effectively) constant. One is skeptical regarding what global improvement is possible. Certainly individual optimizations (maturity) are worth pusuing. But some teleolgical societal endpoint (Progress) that we should pursue could prove a total bugaboo.
- jrm4 4y ago100%. Relatedly, this is why I'm ultra-skeptical of just about everything AI is hyped up to be these days. Computers are nowhere near us in terms of being able to synthesize all this stuff and actually doing helpful things for humans in this space.