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sincerely 10 hours ago

>The wording here is fascinating, mainly because they're effectively acting as arbiters of "vibes"

This is not such an unusual thing in law, as much as us stem-brained people want legal systems to work like code. The most famous example is determining art vs pornography - "I know it when I see it" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it)

loeg 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"I know it when I see it" notoriously does not work in law, either. Instead, we have the Miller test.

sincerely 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Pt 1 of the Miller test is just "I know it when I see it" where "I" is a hypothetical random person

idiotsecant 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which is of course the only way it makes sense to write laws, since code can't model infinite reality.

Not, at least, until our machine overlords arrive.

wellf 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Not just reality. Adversaries trying to find loopholes. Luckily the git history of law goes back millenia so its had some time to adapt to humans.