TIL: The US has an “adversarial legal system” in which the court acts as arbiter between plaintiff and defendant. Most other countries have an “inquisitorial legal system” in which the court takes an active role in investigating the case.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1116418648342781954 …
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The fundamental problem here is relying on a system designed to ensure quality rather than creating the system so the participants are incentivized to ensure quality. That in and of itself would also be crazy expensive and quickly subject to capture and corruption itself!
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I was kinda taking it on face value that the book Robin summarized had a plausible proposal in it. In general I agree that decentralized systems work better
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Have you read the book?
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nah just robin's summary. i've read almost nothing about legal systems... seems like a big gap in my worldview
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I also wonder how this may or may not benefit defendants without the adequate resources to afford a decent attorney.
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From their perspective, the court behaves more like a marketplace for settling issues as quickly as possible than an adjudicator for justice.
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