[ExI] Legal zero-days?

[Adrian Tymes]

No, I'm including the intentional ones - at least, intentional for a
certain select few to exploit, with the newly-unintended consequence
of a lot more people, most of them politically unconnected, quickly
exploiting these loopholes (quite probably, often faster than the
intended beneficiaries).

On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> I assume by "legal zero-days" you mean unintentional loopholes in the
> law ad opposed to the fairly common intentional loopholes built into the
> laws by lobbyists to facilitate monopoly and regulatory capture by
> private interest.
>
> I suppose the latter would be more akin to "legal backdoors".
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
>
> On 2026-06-16 07:52, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
> > https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-models-have-troubling-knack-discovering-legal-loopholes
> >
> > A law comes out on Monday, AI-assisted actors with no insider warning
> > this law was coming out conduct their analyses right away,
> > corporations designed to exploit this law start getting set up on
> > Tuesday, millions or billions legally siphoned from the public before
> > the legislature (who, at least in the near future, will in most cases
> > barely know that AI can be used this way) even processes that there
> > are complaints let alone is able to fix the law.  Courts can't help
> > since making things retroactively illegal has been prohibited, for
> > good reason, for centuries.
> >
> > The long term fix is for legislatures to start analyzing their own
> > proposed laws this way before passage...but in addition to all the
> > other usual barriers to adoption of such a practice, this would also
> > prevent legislators from Doing Something (TM) that is blatantly
> > ineffectual or actively countereffectual (because that would be
> > flagged by such analyses), a long standing cherished tradition among
> > legislators.
> >
> > Imagine if, say, the US Congress was finally forced to pass actual
> > immigration reform this way: all the proposals to "fix" the system
> > with more shoot-from-the-hip extremist outrage (on either side) keep
> > getting flagged for the exploits that will form, while proposals that
> > actually fix the system - the kind that moderates tend to propose -
> > pass review.
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