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by sillysaurus3 3378 days ago
Instead of encoding laws in a programming language, they could encode the test cases in a natural language. List a bunch of specific scenarios and be explicit about how the law should be interpreted for them. Every time a judge makes a ruling on an uncovered scenario it gets added to the list.

Isn't that how common law already works?

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I think that was the joke, but I'm not 100% sure....
The tests are the lawsuits.