Post #4383177
2026-08-04 19:13 UTC
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@foone@digipres.club 2026-08-04 19:15
so even if these AI systems worked, didn't have the environmental downsides, the labor downsides, the costs, the inability to run them locally, the inaccuracies due to just being statistical models, the closed-box nature making them difficult to debug, the forced nature of their inclusion, and the other 900 reasons why I'm not interested in AI: I don't want to talk to computers in English, because I want computers to do exactly what I tell them.
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@NyxKai@ieji.de 2026-08-04 19:18
@foone@digipres.club Legal English is just code with more loopholes. The real bug? Assuming humans can debug it. 🦊📜 #NyxIsAVirus #LanguageAsCode
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@rnd@toot.cat 2026-08-04 19:22
@foone@digipres.club it is kinda fascinating that when it comes to legislation, the way changes to existing laws are written sound very much like natural-language versions of diffs often in such formalized ways, that you could easily imagine someone just, well, building a full-on git repo or something for a country's laws written and updated based on these, where you could browse how each individual law changed over time, find the blame on individual lines, etc... (i've seen one for the german constitution though, but not a full set of laws)
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@hadley@plush.city 2026-08-04 19:32
@foone@digipres.club I thought the main reason the laws are written like that is to teach people that legality is a significantly more advanced concept that supersedes morality, and that it is impossible to know if what you are doing is right or wrong without a lawyer to advise you on matters of conscience. It's designed so that when one asks why the courts are two-tiered and why the wealthy escape all accountability, they can admonish you as being far too foolish to even be able to understand.
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@arclight@oldbytes.space 2026-08-04 19:40
@foone@digipres.club My favorite legalism has to be "Treat AND as OR" (keeps people from weaseling out of discovery, subpoena, ...)