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Re:Show HN: Cut the crap – remove the AI bullshit from websites by efitz on Monday December 09, 2024 @09:35AM (#42366555)
I’ve wondered from time to time if we could replace some of the wordiness of laws and legal documents with bullet lists. For example, a trial about some interpretation of a word in a law could be contributed back to the law as a bullet point that says, “this also applies if …”.
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Re:Show HN: Cut the crap – remove the AI bullshit from websites by xnorswap on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:59AM (#42367389)
What you're describing is law, most of it is bullet points, take for example the computer misuse act 1990, section 1:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/1

Or if you're more patient, the whole lot:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/crossheading/co...

It's all bullet points.

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Re:Show HN: Cut the crap – remove the AI bullshit from websites by FredPret on Monday December 09, 2024 @11:01AM (#42367412)
> a trial about some interpretation of a word in a law could be contributed back to the law as a bullet point that says, “this also applies if …”.

Is this not what happens in case law?

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Re:Show HN: Cut the crap – remove the AI bullshit from websites by efitz on Monday December 09, 2024 @01:53PM (#42369216)
The law doesn’t literally get updated with a bullet point. Subsequently attorneys have to do ever greater searches to analyze all the precedents.
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