Law and Legal systems

TagLast edit: 9 Apr 2021 6:08 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Courts, juries, lawyers, Law enforcement, justice, but also the legislative process.

External posts:
Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, Because I Just Made Them Up
Slightly Skew Systems Of Government
A Comprehensive Reboot of Law Enforcement

Related tags: Government, Mechanism Design

[Question] What are the best resources for building gears-level models of how governments actually work?

adamShimi19 Aug 2024 14:05 UTC

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Book Review: Working With Contracts

johnswentworth14 Sep 2020 23:22 UTC

167 points

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1. A Sense of Fairness: Deconfusing Ethics

RogerDearnaley17 Nov 2023 20:55 UTC

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Almost everyone should be less afraid of lawsuits

alyssavance27 Nov 2021 2:06 UTC

197 points

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Machine Learning Consent

jefftk8 Dec 2022 3:50 UTC

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(www.jefftk.com)

Language Model Memorization, Copyright Law, and Conditional Pretraining Alignment

RogerDearnaley7 Dec 2023 6:14 UTC

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Conspiracy Investigation Done Right

ymeskhout19 Feb 2024 0:09 UTC

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Middle Child Phenomenon

PhilosophicalSoul15 Mar 2024 20:47 UTC

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NYT is suing OpenAI&Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement; some quick thoughts

Mikhail Samin27 Dec 2023 18:44 UTC

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Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm

jasoncrawford4 May 2023 22:11 UTC

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(rootsofprogress.org)

My Clients, The Liars

ymeskhout5 Mar 2024 21:06 UTC

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The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom

komponisto13 Dec 2009 4:16 UTC

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Why So Many Cookie Banners?

jefftk10 Oct 2022 2:20 UTC

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(www.jefftk.com)

Learning societal values from law as part of an AGI alignment strategy

John Nay21 Oct 2022 2:03 UTC

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Can Ads be GDPR Compliant?

jefftk8 Jan 2023 2:50 UTC

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(www.jefftk.com)

Ad Fraud Detection Prediction Market

jefftk17 Jan 2023 18:10 UTC

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(www.jefftk.com)

Bayesian Injustice

Kevin Dorst14 Dec 2023 15:44 UTC

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(kevindorst.substack.com)

AXRP Episode 28 - Suing Labs for AI Risk with Gabriel Weil

DanielFilan17 Apr 2024 21:42 UTC

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The impossible problem of due process

mingyuan16 Jan 2024 5:18 UTC

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Preventing overcharging by prosecutors

ChristianKl6 Apr 2021 11:13 UTC

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How factories were made safe

jasoncrawford12 Sep 2021 19:58 UTC

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(rootsofprogress.org)

Is Legal Reasoning Fundamentally Irrational?

ThomasMore7 Oct 2021 8:22 UTC

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Occupational Licensing Roundup #1

Zvi30 Oct 2024 11:00 UTC

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Aug 2007 5:36 UTC

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Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906

Zvi5 May 2022 15:20 UTC

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In Defense of Lawyers Playing Their Part

Isaac King1 Jul 2024 1:32 UTC

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Notes on Justice (as a virtue)

David Gross5 Nov 2020 20:27 UTC

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Notes on Forgiveness

David Gross26 Jan 2021 2:05 UTC

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Free Speech as Legal Right vs. Ethical Value

ozymandias28 Nov 2017 16:49 UTC

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I Am not a Tax Lawyer

Jacob Falkovich24 Dec 2017 3:20 UTC

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(putanumonit.com)

The US Already Has A Wealth Tax

jefftk19 Aug 2020 14:50 UTC

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(www.jefftk.com)

Beyond Reasonable Doubt? - Richard Dawkins [link]

Dreaded_Anomaly10 Feb 2012 2:28 UTC

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Knox and Sollecito freed

komponisto3 Oct 2011 20:24 UTC

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An upcoming US Supreme Court case may impede AI governance efforts

NickGabs16 Jul 2023 23:51 UTC

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Russian parliamentarian: let’s ban personal computers and the Internet

RomanS25 Jul 2023 17:30 UTC

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A Federal Judge on Biases in the Criminal Justice System.

Costanza3 Jul 2015 3:17 UTC

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A Case for AI Safety via Law

JWJohnston11 Sep 2023 18:26 UTC

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From Personal to Prison Gangs: Enforcing Prosocial Behavior

johnswentworth24 Jan 2019 18:07 UTC

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[Question] How to Legally Conduct “Rationalist Bets” in California?

Davis_Kingsley9 Feb 2022 8:16 UTC

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Law-Following AI 1: Sequence Introduction and Structure

Cullen27 Apr 2022 17:26 UTC

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Law-Following AI 2: Intent Alignment + Superintelligence → Lawless AI (By Default)

Cullen27 Apr 2022 17:27 UTC

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Law-Following AI 3: Lawless AI Agents Undermine Stabilizing Agreements

Cullen27 Apr 2022 17:30 UTC

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[Question] Could Patent-Trolling delay AI timelines?

Pablo Repetto10 Jun 2022 2:53 UTC

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Parliaments without the Parties

Yair Halberstadt19 Jun 2022 14:06 UTC

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Law-Following AI 4: Don’t Rely on Vicarious Liability

Cullen2 Aug 2022 23:26 UTC

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What Should AI Owe To Us? Accountable and Aligned AI Systems via Contractualist AI Alignment

xuan8 Sep 2022 15:04 UTC

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Leveraging Legal Informatics to Align AI

John Nay18 Sep 2022 20:39 UTC

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The AI Control Problem in a wider intellectual context

philosophybear13 Jan 2023 0:28 UTC

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[Question] Should AI writers be prohibited in education?

Eleni Angelou17 Jan 2023 0:42 UTC

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Post series on “Liability Law for reducing Existential Risk from AI”

Nora_Ammann29 Feb 2024 4:39 UTC

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Motivating Alignment of LLM-Powered Agents: Easy for AGI, Hard for ASI?

RogerDearnaley11 Jan 2024 12:56 UTC

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Incorporating Justice Theory into Decision Theory

StrivingForLegibility21 Jan 2024 19:17 UTC

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Pro-Choice: Right for the Wrong Reasons

peteroldani25 Jan 2024 19:28 UTC

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Fifteen Lawsuits against OpenAI

Remmelt9 Mar 2024 12:22 UTC

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AI, Intellectual Property, and the Techno-Optimist Revolution

Justin-Diamond31 Jan 2024 18:30 UTC

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(www.researchgate.net)

Tort Law Can Play an Important Role in Mitigating AI Risk

Gabriel Weil12 Feb 2024 17:17 UTC

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Discord space for people with FTX clawbacks/claims request

kotrfa16 Feb 2024 9:04 UTC

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Anthropic is being sued for copying books to train Claude

Remmelt31 Aug 2024 2:57 UTC

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(fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)

AI Labs Wouldn’t be Convicted of Treason or Sedition

Matthew Khoriaty23 Jun 2024 21:34 UTC

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Labor Participation is an Alignment Risk

alex25 Jun 2024 14:15 UTC

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That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be assumed to should be destroyed by it

Thac09 Jul 2024 19:39 UTC

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Game Theory and Society

Zero Contradictions5 Aug 2024 4:27 UTC

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(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Inquisitive vs. adversarial rationality

gb18 Sep 2024 13:50 UTC

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AI Rights for Human Safety

Simon Goldstein1 Aug 2024 23:01 UTC

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(papers.ssrn.com)

Case Story: Lack of Consumer Protection Procedures AI Manipulation and the Threat of Fund Concentration in Crypto Seeking Assistance to Fund a Civil Case to Establish Facts and Protect Vulnerable Consumers from Damage Caused by Automated Systems

Petr Andreev8 Aug 2024 5:55 UTC

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Ex-OpenAI researcher says OpenAI mass-violated copyright law

Remmelt24 Oct 2024 1:00 UTC

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(suchir.net)

How would you govern Mars?

Bernhard31 Dec 2020 2:32 UTC

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Given the Restrict Act, Don’t Ban TikTok

Zvi4 Apr 2023 14:40 UTC

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bayesian Punishment

Rob Lucas27 Oct 2023 3:24 UTC

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The 6D effect: When companies take risks, one email can be very powerful.

scasper4 Nov 2023 20:08 UTC

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2. AIs as Economic Agents

RogerDearnaley23 Nov 2023 7:07 UTC

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3. Uploading

RogerDearnaley23 Nov 2023 7:39 UTC

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4. A Moral Case for Evolved-Sapience-Chauvinism

RogerDearnaley24 Nov 2023 4:56 UTC

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Hearsay, Double Hearsay, and Bayesian Updates

Mass_Driver16 Feb 2012 22:31 UTC

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“Should Blackmail Be Legal” Hanson/Zvi Debate (Sun July 26th, 3pm PDT)

Ben Pace20 Jul 2020 4:06 UTC

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[Question] What societies have ever had legal or accepted blackmail?

clone of saturn17 Mar 2019 9:16 UTC

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Yoav Ravid 29 Dec 2020 14:56 UTC
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Suggestion: change to ‘Law and Legal Systems’. i looked for “law” and didn’t find this page, i might have not found it if i didn’t think to look for “legal systems” (which wouldn’t come first to the average person)