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.
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.
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)
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).
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.
Wearing those disposable masks causes a lot of this. I'm apparently allergic to polyester so I notice this from sofas and uncovered mattresses and various other materials that (to me) surprisignly, emit a lot of plastic.
Last time I looked into OCR stuff I came to a similar conclusion (though I didn't implement anything back thne). It would be really nice to have "open source" models that had similar performance, without having to deal with the iphone cluster hackery.
Inflation is likely to remain high for a while, and perhaps for good so the value of your USD will go down.
Rents and stuff rose 20% or so in the US which ought to be indicative of the real rate of inflation.
Euro seems to fare better so far but the ECB printed even more euros than the US printed dollars so I'm minimizing my own euro exposure.
I tried this path, but I find myself disillusioned. So far I don't have a cause I could spend all of my time advancing.
I don't have the burning motivation to do everything to found a thriving startup doing some random thing. It is really hard.
Maybe I could eventually find one but the odds don't seem great. Ideally I might work for something like Neuralink but I don't think I can get there. The chasm to making that a reality seems too deep. Though this may be a self-fulfilling prophecy in a way.
As for other startups, I don't think e.g. any of the local ones pay well and, like many would say, I value equity options at zero until they're liquid.
I just feel like I've been burned too many times to grasp for more lottery tickets.
Thanks, but I find that r/Fire is perhaps a bit too conservative and singular-focused. I was hoping to find some other takes on HN.
Right now I think InvestAnswers on Youtube has one of a the most clear-headed takes on this (hard focus on crypto though).
Perhaps also something on alternative income streams. I managed to work 24/7 on a startup once, but after it crashed and burned with nothing to show for it, I don't think I can do it again. I tried many times but I couldn't make it work.
AI would be more lucrative to work on but even though I have a degree labelled such, I find the chasm to a job making more money from that somehow impassable. But maybe it's not entirely.