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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.

For the latter: https://mekanismirealismi.fi/mev/he-38-2025-hva-funding and https://mekanismirealismi.fi/mechanism-authority etc.

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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)

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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).

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Probably going to look into sandboxing the browser much more in the future...

- 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.

It's cumbersome to set up the configuration for exactly the "expected" capabilities (at least I never bother). So I was wondering, could one do something like trapping syscalls and using LLM as an exception handler for each category, until a complete profile is built for the program. After that, there should be no overhead for the LLM/sandboxer.

The top-level input would be something like "foo is a multiplayer game" or "baz is like youtube-dl".

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