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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:07PM (#27684418)
God I wish contracts were encoded semantically rather than as plain text. I just tried to look through Github's terms of service[1]. I'd search for "Github can <verb> with <adjective> code" if I could. Instead I'm giving up.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...

Re:GitHub Copilot by int_19h on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:42AM (#27687750)
A world in which all laws and contracts were required to be written in Lojban would be interesting.
Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:00AM (#27687941)
That looks hard. More politically feasible might be a language I've unfortunately forgotten the name of, ordinary English but with some extra rules designed to eliminate ambiguity -- every noun has to carry a specifier like "some" or "all" or "the" or "a", etc.
Re:GitHub Copilot by ganzuul on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:56AM (#27689306)
Legalese might be similar to code, and there is lots of interest in making law machine readable. So don't give up; check back later.