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Re:How journalists use youtube-dl by ponker on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:42PM (#24904307)
Computer people probably see the nondeterministic behavior in words like “primarily” as evidence of a bug. To the law school graduates who write the laws, it’s a feature and not a bug that these decisions are made by a judge in a courtroom.
Re:How journalists use youtube-dl by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:21AM (#24905388)
It helps to realize that "human reality" is nondeterministic in the sense that we lack sufficient computing power and modelling capability to work with it. It's not random, it's AI-complete. We literally can't handle it formally, and that's why we need to defer to the only "general AI" we have - or as its ordinarily called, human judgement. And human judgement is not random - it's taking into account vast amounts of data, like ethics/morality and social context, which for now escape our attempts at formalizing them.
Re:How journalists use youtube-dl by ponker on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @05:05AM (#24905609)
And the concept of case law / precedent is an attempt to synthesize a point of view from multiple different judges. “Training data,” if you will.