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the documents themselves arent the problem, the real deception lies in the use of language and words of art
by drstrangevibes 14y ago
the documents themselves arent the problem, the real deception lies in the use of language and words of art
- fidotron 14y agoExactly. My semi serious view is that laws should be written in Prolog.
- eurleif 14y agoI think there will come a time when people will look back and find it quaint and impractical that we tried to interpret our massive legal system by hand, rather than leaving that sort of thing to computers.
- polymatter 14y agoor how about Lojban? That way it can be machine readable, unambiguously queried, culturally neutral and actually be a language designed for human communication. (xkcd 191 comic joke notwithstanding)
- philwelch 14y agoI, for one, would prefer not to be imprisoned due to a bug.
- drstrangevibes 14y agomany people already are, though the bugs are lexical in nature
- philwelch 14y agoThe difference is that you can often get a judge to say "hey, that's a bug!" and then you're released.
- drstrangevibes 14y agounfortunately many judges have "bugs" in them too!
- drstrangevibes 14y agodoes prolog lack ambiguity?