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Trapped Equilibria: When adoption isn't a legal move

kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·mese scorso·0 comments

Why Law Is Law-Shaped

lawvm.org
84 points·by ekns·2 mesi fa·71 comments

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

lawvm.org
2 points·by ekns·3 mesi fa·0 comments

The Alignment Problem in Your Government

kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·3 mesi fa·0 comments

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

github.com
6 points·by ekns·3 mesi fa·0 comments

The Hypercodex

kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·4 mesi fa·0 comments

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

kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·5 mesi fa·1 comments

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Annotated

aliveness.kunnas.com
1 points·by ekns·6 mesi fa·0 comments

The Question Nobody Asks

aliveness.kunnas.com
3 points·by ekns·7 mesi fa·1 comments

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

aliveness.kunnas.com
44 points·by ekns·7 mesi fa·35 comments

Values Aren't Subjective

aliveness.kunnas.com
2 points·by ekns·8 mesi fa·0 comments

An Engineer's Guide to the Trolley Problem

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2 points·by ekns·8 mesi fa·0 comments

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ekns
·20 giorni fa·discuss
The real solution is in principle easy: separate data from metadata https://kunnas.com/articles/the-content-is-the-attack-surfac...
ekns
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Fair point. I've added a clarification that the structural constraint holds across civil law, common law, and hybrid systems. Thanks.
ekns
·2 mesi fa·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
·2 mesi fa·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
·3 mesi fa·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
·3 mesi fa·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
·4 mesi fa·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
·7 mesi fa·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).