1 Covid Report 4 Theories - The Kit Kat Problem

The Kit Kat Problem — no, it’s not about what to do if you open one up around more than three other people. Jason Brennan (Georgetown) explains

THE EVIDENCE IS STILL BEING ASSEMBLED:  1 report, 4 theories: Scientists mull clues on origin of COVID-19.

And by “assembled” they really mean “created.”

Ritter, Jeffrey, Digital Justice in 2058: Trusting Our Survival to AI, Quantum and the Rule of Law (December 22, 2020). 8 J. INT’L & COMPARATIVE LAW __ (2021), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3778678 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3778678 

“As legal scholarship on the interactions among artificial intelligence (AI) and the rule of law advances, quantum computing is rapidly moving from scientific theory into reality, offering unprecedented potential for what AI will accomplish. To anticipate what the rule of law will offer when quantum becomes real, Part I introduces a future reality in which a new machine-based legal system, quantum law, governs humankind. Time travelling forward to 2058, the centennial birthday of the Internet, Part II surveys the condition of the world, in which the rule of law serves an essential purpose—to extend the survival of humankind. Part III offers the text of an imagined keynote address in that year, describing the foundations on which justice has evolved and quantum law is administered. Part IV concludes by challenging custodians of the law to think differently about how to fit law and technology together, while still preserving and advancing the humane values cherished as principles of the rule of law today—compassion, forgiveness, redemption, equality and fairness.”

What’s new in Congress.gov? Spring 2021 Edition

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Mar 22, 2021

In Custodia Legis by Andrew Weber: “Most of our Congress.gov posts focus on the enhancements which are part of our three week sprint cycles by which we release new material and upgrades to Congress.gov. However, sometimes I like to take a longer look back at the work we have done and provide a bigger snapshot of the Congress.gov enhancements. At the September 2020 Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum, I shared a few slides of our future projects. The first was a committee hearing transcript…Committee hearing transcripts are now available on Congress.gov. We started adding hearings to Congress.gov in September 2020 with two Congresses (the 115th and 116th). The first phase included providing the full text of hearing transcriptsand adding them to our search results. Over time we added more Congresses and now have transcripts for eleven Congresses going back to the 107th Congress (2001-2002). Later in September 2020, we added links to the transcripts from the All Actions tab on Legislation. As of October you can now listen to the text of a committee hearing transcript. Earlier this month, we made two additional enhancements. The first was adding the ability to browse hearing transcripts by date on the Committee Schedule Select a Date calendar. We also added links to treaty documents from committee meeting overviews (see “Related Items”). The second future project was adding Statutes at Largethat contain the text of public law to the site for historical material…”