Can Washington Be Automated?
Tangentially related:<p>I&#x27;m not sure if automated decisions are a good idea. But it would be really cool to improve productivity of politicians.<p>How can we expect our politicians, let alone our lay people, to understand all of the law&#x27;s in a country? There is just too much text to grok.<p>Software developers build abstractions, write tests, refactor and simplify older code, yet no such trend seems to be occurring for law. Why not?<p>Politicians already do use references and bucketization, i.e. write a law for schedule one drugs, then add or remove entities from the schedule one bucket. Can&#x27;t we abstract even more?<p>Recently I&#x27;ve been wondering if it is feasible to create a syntax for lawyers. Like a law language with a compiler, package manager and similar tooling to compile laws rather than write them from scratch.<p>Anyone familiar with such research?