bogus comments on Rational Repentance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Costanza 15 January 2011 03:47:15AM 3 points [-]

I am seriously interested in more information about this approach. I think that right now, there are two modern systems of law: Roman-derived law and English-derived, or "common" law. Sharia law might count as a close runner-up. I think Halacha is well-developed, but not widely-enforced, so I would not count it as a major modern legal system. With that said, and admitting I don't know much about civil law or the religious laws, my impression is that all the above are similarly complicated, and have been for centuries. I am in doubt that human behavior and its ambiguities could be simplified by being encoded in Python. I think it's a really, really hard problem, at least as long as humans remain as unpredictable as they do.

Comment author: bogus 16 January 2011 02:34:38PM 2 points [-]

I am seriously interested in more information about this approach. I think that right now, there are two modern systems of law: Roman-derived law and English-derived, or "common" law. Sharia law might count as a close runner-up. I think Halacha is well-developed, but not widely-enforced, so I would not count it as a major modern legal system.

David Friedman has taught a course in "Legal Systems Very Different From Ours" in both 2008 and 2010. See these course pages: [1] [2]