[gyudin]

350 pages of ramblings that nobody who was voting for this act hasn't actually read?

[senko]

In comparison, the Inflation Reduction Act, an one-off act, is 750 pages long.

[gyudin]

“If you don't want them to know something, put it in a book, they'll never read it” Idea as an old as the world itself :)

[troupo]

Or of an actual sensible legislation that requires accountability from AI development and deployment: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-truth-about-the-eu-ac...

[lewhoo]

Yeah but a two-page font size 20 alternative proposal would introduce a thousand obvious and another ten thousand non-obvious loopholes, much like that double negative of yours. (I'm not trying to be a grammar Nazi, English isn't my native lang either) One of the reasons why the Constitution of USA has to be interpreted constantly is because it's relatively short and vague.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

There is this weird and very real similarity between code and law. I realised this when I had to read up on some laws that were relevant to me, and found them shockingly easy to understand despite never having studied law.

[lewhoo]

Yeah I found something similar as well. It's all logic.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

You are one wicked free thinker dude.

[gyudin]

I wish haha, they are just following the guidelines :)) https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/read-the-cias-simple-sab...

[hdkrgr]

When you write code, do you also ignore edge cases to keep things simple?