satt comments on Free to Optimize - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 17 May 2011 09:30:10PM 2 points [-]

Oh, and I should have added earlier that modern legal systems score a nearly complete FAIL on this attribute of Fun Theory - no one human mind can even know all the rules any more, let alone optimize for them. There should be some Constitutional rule to the effect that the complete sum of the Law must be readable by one human in one month with 8 hours of sleep every night and regular bathroom breaks.

That's a good idea. Why did no one think of that?

Comment author: satt 17 May 2011 10:58:52PM 3 points [-]

I expect a lot of people suspect that the law is necessarily more complex than EY's rule would allow, as the law has to cover so many different situations.