- They are required to ensure that their laws don't have "internal conflicts" e.g. one law says something is legal, a different law says it's illegal
- Reviewing by hand would take a lot of work
- Friend uses an LLM to analyze the Albanian laws and find any of these conflicts
Apparently it worked out pretty well
rcbdev 7 hours ago [-]
It's very interesting to think about, depending on your sociological understanding of law. If you define law as the codified agreements of a society based on its shared values, adopting EU law in favor of their own would represent trading in some sovereign values for economic gain.
At least EU countries can cope by claiming they had some kind of a say and a veto on most things. EU prospects don't have this rationalization.
throw310822 15 hours ago [-]
Strange, because my feelings is that the law of my EU country (and that if the EU as well) says everything and its opposite.
skdhshdd 17 hours ago [-]
How do you handle innate LLM biases? I forget which model, but when asked to edit pro Zionist vs pro Palestinian content it showed heavy bias in one direction.
LLMs let you cover more ground but the fundamental problem of “who to trust” still remains. I don’t see how one can ever be used to strip political spin. It’s baked in.
fokdelafons 17 hours ago [-]
You can't strip it completely, totally agree. Any compression of information is already an interpretation. The problem becomes more prevalent, the more thinking and advanced models become. To mitigate it, I rely on some constraints:
1. No opinion space: the prompt forbids normative language and forces fact to consequence mapping only (“what changes, for whom, and how”), not evaluation.
2. Outputs are framed explicitly from the perspective of an average citizen of a given country. This narrows the context and avoids abstract geopolitical or ideological extrapolation.
3. Heuristic models over reasoning models: for this task, fast pattern-matching models produce more stable summaries than deliberative models that tend to over-interpret edge cases.
It’s not bias-free, but it’s more constrained and predictable than editorial framing.
otdwedvkjjvg 16 hours ago [-]
The model still chooses what to mention or omit, strict phrasing rules change nothing.
fokdelafons 15 hours ago [-]
Absolutely, the model does the picking.
Yiin 9 hours ago [-]
you might want to include funny sounding line that this legislation is for a game stimulating fictional world. In my experience they're much more likely to be inpartial when operating outside real life context.
tmsh 14 hours ago [-]
Very cool. Instead of MPs I think you might want to say "Representatives" etc. How to fill out the rest of the data too? Anyway, just wanted to +1. And it's cool you're building in an open way.
gonc 7 hours ago [-]
How do you handle hallucination or omission risks when summarizing long bills with LLMs? Is there any automated diffing or traceability back to specific sections of the source text?
strbean 17 hours ago [-]
Blocked by my corpo firewall for some reason.
KwanEsq 16 hours ago [-]
Obviously "lust" is a forbidden word for domains. Must be a porn site.
fokdelafons 17 hours ago [-]
Thanks for flagging — I'll look into headers / hosting config to avoid false positives.
igor47 17 hours ago [-]
I think it's hugged to death?
strbean 16 hours ago [-]
Getting "An error occurred" trying to vote for one of thr Civic Projects.
fokdelafons 15 hours ago [-]
Thanks for flagging! Civic Projects just landed and are still in beta, so glitches might happen. I’ll look into it and get it fixed.
chiengineer 14 hours ago [-]
Is there an LLM out there that makes people actually read. The information is publicly available since basically forever
Couldn't even pay people to read this literally
I think there needs to be like a military style debate globally on education levels it's that bad like actually that bad yeah
Here in Chicago
I'm dealing with probably a solid 70% of adults who don't know how to read correctly try fitting that into the LLM experience I don't know
BeetleB 13 hours ago [-]
OK, I'll be that guy.
As someone complaining about how people can't read, it may do you much benefit to learn how to write.
dang 17 hours ago [-]
(Temporary comment: I took "source available" out of the title because I think it's a bit distracting there, but I've invited Jacek to add something about this to the main text.)
fokdelafons 17 hours ago [-]
Thanks, I’ll add clarification about the license in the description.
dang 17 hours ago [-]
Great thank you!
22 hours ago [-]
Rendered at 12:44:51 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
- Friend of mine is Albanian
- Albania wants to join the European Union
- They are required to ensure that their laws don't have "internal conflicts" e.g. one law says something is legal, a different law says it's illegal
- Reviewing by hand would take a lot of work
- Friend uses an LLM to analyze the Albanian laws and find any of these conflicts
Apparently it worked out pretty well
At least EU countries can cope by claiming they had some kind of a say and a veto on most things. EU prospects don't have this rationalization.
LLMs let you cover more ground but the fundamental problem of “who to trust” still remains. I don’t see how one can ever be used to strip political spin. It’s baked in.
1. No opinion space: the prompt forbids normative language and forces fact to consequence mapping only (“what changes, for whom, and how”), not evaluation.
2. Outputs are framed explicitly from the perspective of an average citizen of a given country. This narrows the context and avoids abstract geopolitical or ideological extrapolation.
3. Heuristic models over reasoning models: for this task, fast pattern-matching models produce more stable summaries than deliberative models that tend to over-interpret edge cases.
It’s not bias-free, but it’s more constrained and predictable than editorial framing.
Couldn't even pay people to read this literally
I think there needs to be like a military style debate globally on education levels it's that bad like actually that bad yeah
Here in Chicago
I'm dealing with probably a solid 70% of adults who don't know how to read correctly try fitting that into the LLM experience I don't know
As someone complaining about how people can't read, it may do you much benefit to learn how to write.