I'm not sure this can work. Law above a certain low level has more in common with politics than computer code. A good case is a political campaign (just with very few voters), not a program.
Law 'feels' like code, its kind of the "legal fiction" we need to believe in to stay sane, but when it actually comes down to it, its anything but.
What you just identified is precisely what Peter is criticizing here. The whole point is that maybe technology can make this fiction less fictitious.
You may think that the law is necessarily more like politics, and that there's little room for code. But I don't see any reason for that in your comment, which is more just a reaffirmation that the status quo exists.
Good points. I probably didn't word that very well. What I'm getting at is that justice is mostly political not because we couldn't make it more rational, but because we really prefer it that way.
Certainly technology can make this fiction less fictitious in the future, but I'm not sure we'll want to use it that way.
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I'm not sure this can work. Law above a certain low level has more in common with politics than computer code. A good case is a political campaign (just with very few voters), not a program.
Law 'feels' like code, its kind of the "legal fiction" we need to believe in to stay sane, but when it actually comes down to it, its anything but.
What you just identified is precisely what Peter is criticizing here. The whole point is that maybe technology can make this fiction less fictitious.
You may think that the law is necessarily more like politics, and that there's little room for code. But I don't see any reason for that in your comment, which is more just a reaffirmation that the status quo exists.
Good points. I probably didn't word that very well. What I'm getting at is that justice is mostly political not because we couldn't make it more rational, but because we really prefer it that way.
Certainly technology can make this fiction less fictitious in the future, but I'm not sure we'll want to use it that way.