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Maybe one solution for this issue would be some kind of “developer’s ombudsman” that is an affordable public service to 1) help people navigate the bureaucracy
by janalsncm 8mo ago
Maybe one solution for this issue would be some kind of “developer’s ombudsman” that is an affordable public service to 1) help people navigate the bureaucracy and 2) produce a report recommending streamlining of rules where possible.
This avoids “cutting down all the laws to punish the devil”. Some regulations are necessary.
- terminalshort 8mo agoAnother bureaucracy to help people navigate the existing bureaucracy? Are you missing a "/s"?
- janalsncm 8mo agoNo. The companies that hire lawyers to navigate government bureaucracy have their own internal bureaucracies. So the status quo is not “no bureaucracy”. It seems that in any sufficiently complex thing there will be some irreducible amount of bureaucracy. So it’s reasonable to make that irreducible set of rules more accessible.
- terminalshort 8mo agoThat's the great part of getting rid of government bureaucracy. You save a bit on that and a fortune on all the internal company bureaucracies that can be removed in response.
- ctoth 8mo ago> Some regulations are necessary. Genuine question — is there a common factor across the regulations you'd keep? Because if there is, you could encode that directly instead of maintaining the specific rules. And if there isn't, "some regulations are necessary" isn't really a position yet.
- janalsncm 8mo ago“Tear it down and see what breaks” is one strategy. I would suggest another based on the principle of Chesterton’s fence: https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ The point of the ombudsman I suggested is that it’s hard to encode a simple rule in a sentence or two. You need to be familiar with the process so you’re not relearning the same lessons over and over.