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 @KevinSimler
The legal system is crazy expensive not because of the adversarial nature but because we have a legislative system that multiplies and complexifies laws at every turn, meaning it takes expensive specialists to navigate the system.
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We already have a system that can't come close to guaranteeing a speedy trial due to manpower issues and you want to generate an additional 10 percent fake trials?!
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Robin’s point (IIRC) was that if we moved to an inquisitorial system, the overall cost would fall (which is certainly debatable), in which case we could afford this kind of QC. Current system is already overburdened
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