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So much for caring about the spirit of the law. Now we'll start an arms race for abusing every possible letter of the law.

It's analogous to crypto. Started from some noble anti-authoritarian ideas and morphed into machine that removes any friction for capital - whoever has the most money will keep gaining the most.

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It's shoved down the world's throat from some central think-tank, despite the carefully constructed illusion of "deglobalization". Someone is very hell-bent on making the whole humankind plunge into this dystopia.

A headline from Russia to consider:

The Supreme Court approves the plan to deploy AI in Russian courts: the document states that by 2030, more than 95% of judges will have to use AI regularly. The risk matrix cites AI hallucinations and opposition from the judicial community.

https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/15/09/2026/6aa8e0342...

Why do you think LLM's language abilities are unable to understand the spirit of the law?

Do you really think the law isn't already horribly abused? Democratization of law has been needed for a thousand years.

Now there will be even less friction to horribly abuse the law. To democratize the law we would need to move in the opposite direction - to always keep it simple and aligned with our intuitions. The more intricate and complex legal arguments become, the more abstracted they are from their original purpose and spirit.

Hence the crypto analogy - it was also supposed to "democratize", but the opposite happaned - it only further empowered the most powerful. Imagine legal case so purposefully complex that only those with access to best models have chances to participate and win the dispute.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but isn’t that what legislators do?

How does AI solve that alreadism?

We'll see. If they harshly sanction slop/hallucinations there will be incentives to use the tech honestly.

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