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Yeah on some level. Very difficult to achieve and who knows if I can even bargain with various interests to conditionally commit to it.

I don't have traction at the moment for it but I'm looking for ways to do it actively. Low chance of success but I think nonzero. Maybe sounds crazy but I think drastic changed are needed anyway so why not try.

Yeah, like LLVM. Compiler for legal text-state -> structural analogy to other compilers (just need to reverse-engineer the exact specifications at the same time).

I think I'll call it "frontend" still internally but I'll look for better terminology.

Agreed re the website. Initially had a simpler website and well, I guess I was trying to achieve something re getting actual jurisdictions interested on adopting it and gauging how much energy to spend on this in general.

Hopefully one day soon my other projects are a lesser priority so I "get to" do the websites again, and maybe figure out what I'm even trying to communicate, exactly or achieve with the website. Hopefully global adoption eventually.

I'm doing this as open source for all amendment-driven law for the world. Finnish/Estonian law basically solved now but US/UK are a lot more complex to do correctly for some reason.

Now major version coming within 1 month probably with many architectural changes. The thesis is that it's basically all doable as a compiler but there may be certain cases which are irreducibly ambiguous and need human/AI to adjudicate them. The rest must be deterministic.

https://github.com/eliask/lawvm

LBO maybe. Optimal governance would fix all bad mechanisms e.g. incentive traps, shooting self in the foot stuff, obvious inefficiencies, etc. - so it would result in a better future with more growth and wealth.

The difference can be used to bargain with incumbents to compensate for their current position, while installing a new type of government in its place that is better. It's a pretty hard problem but I don't think it's impossible. I'm pursuing this kind of thing in Finland presently.

I haven't used skills files at all. I think my codebase scaffolding and AGENTS.md just kind of does everything I need.

E.g. https://github.com/eliask/lawvm/blob/master/AGENTS.md

EDIT: Ah, but what I do instead is I constantly refer to my various public essays. I think it's very useful to have externalized thinking like that available for use with LLM contexts.

The real solution is in principle easy: separate data from metadata https://kunnas.com/articles/the-content-is-the-attack-surfac...

Fair point. I've added a clarification that the structural constraint holds across civil law, common law, and hybrid systems. Thanks.

I get it, it's not ideal. Yet there is no one else doing this work so I put effort where I think it's most neglected - which isn't fully refined prose, imo.

Interesting indeed! What have you learned from the patent space and what kinds of questions can you answer after perhaps solving that domain?

I call it LawVM - interpret amendment statutes as "programs" and verifiably replay them to obtain actual consolidated i.e. current law as it stands (or where ambiguous, surface that)

I was annoyed that in Finland there is no way to know what the law even says, it's basically a do-it-yourself endeavour and the "official" consolidated law isn't even official. If the manual compilation/consolidation has any errors, then you're out of luck. Courts only decide based on the original statutes. And I have found hundreds of errors when doing the compilation.

This could've been done for >30 years and no one ever did.

Full release soon enough once I've cleaned it up. It's a whole compiler suite with Finland, Estonia, UK, Sweden, Norway to start with.

Part of a larger project to build the "state causal map" and doing AI-assisted analysis of all the mechanisms that comprise a state and therefore what is most harmful and what is optimal for governance. LawVM itself doesn't use AI at all except for development.

For the latter: https://mekanismirealismi.fi/mev/he-38-2025-hva-funding and https://mekanismirealismi.fi/mechanism-authority etc.

There is a simple way to mitigate prompt injection. Just check metadata only: is this action by the LLM suspicious given trusted metadata, blanking out the data

Interesting. I've been just now exploring something related or tangential, but for Finnish governance (why not all countries eventually).

Idea: Pull in all related docs and statements from the law and its process. And analyze its mechanisms across all timeframes, and across all capital stocks including social/human/moral etc capital. (finding: no one understands game theory nor causal models apparently)

Author here. Thanks for the corrections.

I revised the essay, my priors were off. Added Good Samaritan data (zero successful CPR lawsuits in 30 years), duty-to-rescue statutes across Europe, and a new section on self-defense showing the trap cuts across Common Law/Civil Law (UK restrictive, Germany/Poland permissive).

Wow, that's a lot of security fixes. If there were so many security bugs, that would suggest that there's a lot more still to be found.

Probably going to look into sandboxing the browser much more in the future...

Power consumption is one side of the coin. The net utility is another:

- With sufficient demand-scaling, Bitcoin incentivizes more power generation capacity since it's the buyer of first resort, establishing some floor on electricity price. This makes additional investment into renewables etc. more sustainable. E.g. where I live, there are days of slightly negative prices, and those clearly are not sustainable, so Bitcoin is the perfect way to ensure we get plentiful cheap energy with continuing investments.

- There's a case to be made that there are more and longer wars under fiat currencies since money-printing is a hidden tax that no one votes for, making it possible to fight in wars that exhaust all state resources, whereas under a Bitcoin standard the wars would be few and limited in scope.

Additionally, US Space Force's Jason Lowery argues that Bitcoin is a weapons technology in cyberspace, and the global Bitcoin mining competition is a form of "soft war", and further argues that a constant "soft war" is more efficient way to defend property rights.

The latter two points are not yet all that salient but imo that is the world we're heading towards inevitably. Bitcoin eventually outcompetes other forms of money as a layered technology and leads to this "hyperbitcoinized" world where they hold true.

This one is not about chirality. Instead, they re-engineer DNA to be made from entirely different bases, thereby obtaining immunity from all extant viruses.

When I was living in Edinburgh, I encountered the corner case of the upper levels of an apartment building having a different postcode from the lower levels. Everything online used the same address database so I wondered why I could never find my address under my (presumed) postcode.