Gust comments on The Power of Noise - LessWrong

28 Post author: jsteinhardt 16 June 2014 05:26PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 18 June 2014 06:30:51PM 3 points [-]

I asked judge Richard Posner (one of my dissertation advisers) if he would be willing to use lotteries as a judge and he said no, it would get him impeached.

Comment author: Gust 03 December 2014 01:36:54AM 1 point [-]

Interesting idea. Brazilian law explicitly admits lottery as a form of settling, but I'm not sure if that example with a penalty for not winning a lawsuit would be admissible.