The federal tax code has to work for literally hundreds of millions of people and billions of situations.
The federal tax code has to work for literally hundreds of millions of people and billions of situations. The presence of grey areas is a design feature not a bug, IMO. Yes, it can be annoying and frustrating to not know with a bright line test of executable English law code the outcome, but I can only imagine how much worse it would be if we tried to reduce every situation down to exhaustively testable 0/1 pure-white/pure-black codification. The disambiguation is lazily evaluated (sometimes at significant expense) by the tax courts, or you can request an evaluation ahead of time in a private letter ruling (at very reasonable expense). I believe this is still better than eager/greedy evaluation of all situations. Almost irrelevantly, I also think that Uber drivers are significantly more ICs than employees.
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This is my biggest problem with agents, they constantly defensively code for cases that have no chance of happening and in most cases a p...
I wish there was something like LEAN for biology.
The issue is really the extreme difficulty of programming them, especially for anything sequential (rather than combinatorial).
I probably could have beared with it if it was only limited to programming, but it showing up in creative fields has made me feel all sor...
I hate that I'm in deep enough to know what you mean.
The biggest problem with “AI” is that big corps are shoving it down our throats.
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The federal tax code has to work for literally hundreds of millions of people and billions of situations.
The federal tax code has to work for literally hundreds of millions of people and billions of situations. The presence of grey areas is a design feature not a bug, IMO. Yes, it can be annoying and frustrating to not know with a bright line test of executable English law code the outcome, but I can only imagine how much worse it would be if we tried to reduce every situation down to exhaustively testable 0/1 pure-white/pure-black codification. The disambiguation is lazily evaluated (sometimes at significant expense) by the tax courts, or you can request an evaluation ahead of time in a private letter ruling (at very reasonable expense). I believe this is still better than eager/greedy evaluation of all situations. Almost irrelevantly, I also think that Uber drivers are significantly more ICs than employees.
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