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Maybe not every 12 months / session, but I definitely think having a way to "sunset" certain types of laws would be a net positive on society.
by rocmcd 5mo ago
Maybe not every 12 months / session, but I definitely think having a way to "sunset" certain types of laws would be a net positive on society.
- rogerrogerr 5mo ago"If no one is charged with $crime for n years, it goes away unless explicitly renewed" would fix some of the weirder laws still on the books, but by definition wouldn't really change much.
- dragonwriter 5mo agoNo, it wouldn't fix anything, but it would result it annoying periodic pro forma charges being filed. When you take a measure and tie a control function to it, you make it a target. When you do that, Goodhart’s law applies, and when the specific connection is as simple as “maintaining a criminal law requires charging someone under it with at least X frequency”, the failure mode is obvious.