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Trapped Equilibria: When adoption isn't a legal move

kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·el mes pasado·0 comments

Why Law Is Law-Shaped

lawvm.org
84 points·by ekns·hace 2 meses·71 comments

Show HN: LawVM, a compiler for replaying amendment acts into point-in-time law

lawvm.org
2 points·by ekns·hace 3 meses·0 comments

The Alignment Problem in Your Government

kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·hace 3 meses·0 comments

Show HN: Farchive – SQLite-backed history-preserving compressed archive

github.com
6 points·by ekns·hace 3 meses·0 comments

The Hypercodex

kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·hace 4 meses·0 comments

Calculemus: Why policy has correct answers and nobody wants to find them

kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·hace 5 meses·1 comments

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Annotated

aliveness.kunnas.com
1 points·by ekns·hace 6 meses·0 comments

The Question Nobody Asks

aliveness.kunnas.com
3 points·by ekns·hace 7 meses·1 comments

The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy

aliveness.kunnas.com
44 points·by ekns·hace 7 meses·35 comments

Values Aren't Subjective

aliveness.kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·hace 8 meses·0 comments

An Engineer's Guide to the Trolley Problem

aliveness.kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·hace 8 meses·0 comments

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ekns
·hace 20 días·discuss
The real solution is in principle easy: separate data from metadata https://kunnas.com/articles/the-content-is-the-attack-surfac...
ekns
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Fair point. I've added a clarification that the structural constraint holds across civil law, common law, and hybrid systems. Thanks.
ekns
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I get it, it's not ideal. Yet there is no one else doing this work so I put effort where I think it's most neglected - which isn't fully refined prose, imo.
ekns
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Interesting indeed! What have you learned from the patent space and what kinds of questions can you answer after perhaps solving that domain?
ekns
·hace 3 meses·discuss
I call it LawVM - interpret amendment statutes as "programs" and verifiably replay them to obtain actual consolidated i.e. current law as it stands (or where ambiguous, surface that)

I was annoyed that in Finland there is no way to know what the law even says, it's basically a do-it-yourself endeavour and the "official" consolidated law isn't even official. If the manual compilation/consolidation has any errors, then you're out of luck. Courts only decide based on the original statutes. And I have found hundreds of errors when doing the compilation.

This could've been done for >30 years and no one ever did.

Full release soon enough once I've cleaned it up. It's a whole compiler suite with Finland, Estonia, UK, Sweden, Norway to start with.

Part of a larger project to build the "state causal map" and doing AI-assisted analysis of all the mechanisms that comprise a state and therefore what is most harmful and what is optimal for governance. LawVM itself doesn't use AI at all except for development.

For the latter: https://mekanismirealismi.fi/mev/he-38-2025-hva-funding and https://mekanismirealismi.fi/mechanism-authority etc.
ekns
·hace 3 meses·discuss
There is a simple way to mitigate prompt injection. Just check metadata only: is this action by the LLM suspicious given trusted metadata, blanking out the data
ekns
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Interesting. I've been just now exploring something related or tangential, but for Finnish governance (why not all countries eventually).

Idea: Pull in all related docs and statements from the law and its process. And analyze its mechanisms across all timeframes, and across all capital stocks including social/human/moral etc capital. (finding: no one understands game theory nor causal models apparently)
ekns
·hace 7 meses·discuss
Author here. Thanks for the corrections.

I revised the essay, my priors were off. Added Good Samaritan data (zero successful CPR lawsuits in 30 years), duty-to-rescue statutes across Europe, and a new section on self-defense showing the trap cuts across Common Law/Civil Law (UK restrictive, Germany/Poland permissive).