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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I love the idea that the state might do quality control on the legal systempic.twitter.com/SESUCsK5AN
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Replying to @KevinSimler
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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Replying to @drethelin
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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