faul_sname comments on Backward Reasoning Over Decision Trees - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Yvain 30 June 2012 03:17AM

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 29 June 2012 05:06:46AM 5 points [-]

Letter by... BWA?!?!

How, how did a line item veto law that allows letter by letter editing get passed?

That couldn't possibly be "oh, we didn't imagine that'd be exploitable." If they knew they were passing the power to actually slice a passed bill letter by letter, then they had to know they were essentially giving the governor arbitrary power.

Comment author: faul_sname 29 June 2012 06:10:38AM 1 point [-]

That depends. They could make the bills really, really short.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 06 July 2012 01:19:59AM 1 point [-]

"I can make this code compile really fast!"

"Oh? How?"

"Well, all I have to do is just mark every line as being a comment...."

:)