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   XPost: can.politics, alt.politics, alt.revisionism   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:03:30 -0700, A Moose in Love wrote:   
      
   >> Good idea, wrong area of application.  Most ofthecost of   
   >> "Law"andLawyers isincontractual law, which is highly amenable   
   >> tothekindof automation you propose.  Criminal law, which is where you   
   >> deriveyour example, talks abouttherights, libertiesandduties   
   >> ofindividualsandother things "beyond a shadow of a doubt" but by no   
   >> means logicallyderivable fromthedataset presented tothecourts.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > I think I see what you're getting at.  For example a piece of   
   > circumstantial evidence could be:  Mr. J was the last person to see Mrs.   
   > E alive.  They had argued before, and he slapped her across the face a   
   > month ago.   
   > It would be difficult for the computer to judge this 'evidence' along   
   > with other pieces of evidence.  If this were a murder trial where Mr. J   
   > was accused of killing Mrs. E.   
      
   Basically in civil/contract law all the parties have some vested   
   interest in telling the truth so an automated intelligence would   
   not have to deal with liars.  Altho' easy to spot with AI, liars   
   pose a fundamental problems that can only be dealt with by those   
   able to understand the phenomenons motives.   
      
   Dhu   
      
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   Duncan Patton a Campbell is Dhu >>> Ne Obliviscaris   
      
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