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I, for laughs, compared the same laws in different countries a few times. We let our very expensive and time constraint law makers reinvent the wheel from scra

by 6510 3y ago

I, for laughs, compared the same laws in different countries a few times. We let our very expensive and time constraint law makers reinvent the wheel from scratch. As the EU shows it takes quite a bit of doing to figure out how to different languages. We could tho, start out with looking at the foreign versions (ranging from expensively empathic to corporate psycho) and uhh you know, maybe they did something right? From what I've seen (which isn't much) there is always one country that did best, sometimes with a huge margin. If you are implementing something that has been done 500 times before yours most likely wont be the best implementation. This idea use to cost quite a bit of money (still worth it) but with an LLM? It could do the expansion without inventing anything. It could even use real world data in stead of the usual lets imagine what would happen.

ajuc 3y ago
The problem with that is that laws depend on each other. If you take a good law from a different system without refactoring your system - you are more likely than not to cause unintended consequences. For example sentences in criminal code must be proportional to other sentences (if you punish rape worse than murder you increase the number of rape victims that are immediately murdered for one example). There's also different systems, in some you add up sentences, in others you only serve the longest sentence. In some you can be punished for the same crime in 2 different aspects, in others you only get one of them prosecuted. There's a lot of details and interdependencies, and even the cultural assumptions and demographics play a big role. Some laws that work in a country with uniformly wealthy population won't work in a country with big inequalities. TL;DR: you can't copy-paste laws between countries without their dependencies :)

by 6510 3y ago

ajuc 3y ago

The problem with that is that laws depend on each other. If you take a good law from a different system without refactoring your system - you are more likely than not to cause unintended consequences. For example sentences in criminal code must be proportional to other sentences (if you punish rape worse than murder you increase the number of rape victims that are immediately murdered for one example). There's also different systems, in some you add up sentences, in others you only serve the longest sentence. In some you can be punished for the same crime in 2 different aspects, in others you only get one of them prosecuted. There's a lot of details and interdependencies, and even the cultural assumptions and demographics play a big role. Some laws that work in a country with uniformly wealthy population won't work in a country with big inequalities. TL;DR: you can't copy-paste laws between countries without their dependencies :)