This thread sparked me to have a long chat with Claude about the subject, and look at a few books to potentially understand the field better myself. What do you think a rationalist reckoning with law would look like?
Speculating on my end: Something like having more public intellectuals like Brian Caplan and Tyler Cowen engage with rationality but are lawyers? Or more have more form posts or discussions about legal topics to the point where there are some rationalist concepts that come from law?
There was a comment on astralcodex from a judge recently that was nice and I’d think it would look like more engagement on that front. It reminds me of the situation with banks in 2008 where the general public has a wildly different understanding than the basic facts that any bank accountant could tell you about eg swaps and fractional reserves.
I wish I had a rec here.
This thread sparked me to have a long chat with Claude about the subject, and look at a few books to potentially understand the field better myself. What do you think a rationalist reckoning with law would look like?
Speculating on my end: Something like having more public intellectuals like Brian Caplan and Tyler Cowen engage with rationality but are lawyers? Or more have more form posts or discussions about legal topics to the point where there are some rationalist concepts that come from law?
There was a comment on astralcodex from a judge recently that was nice and I’d think it would look like more engagement on that front. It reminds me of the situation with banks in 2008 where the general public has a wildly different understanding than the basic facts that any bank accountant could tell you about eg swaps and fractional reserves.