8 comments

  • tmsh 2 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.
  • alexpotato 3 hours ago
    Funny story:

    - 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

    • throw310822 2 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 5 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 4 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 3 hours ago
        The model still chooses what to mention or omit, strict phrasing rules change nothing.
        • fokdelafons 3 hours ago
          Absolutely, the model does the picking.
  • strbean 3 hours ago
    Getting "An error occurred" trying to vote for one of thr Civic Projects.
    • fokdelafons 3 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.
  • strbean 5 hours ago
    Blocked by my corpo firewall for some reason.
    • KwanEsq 4 hours ago
      Obviously "lust" is a forbidden word for domains. Must be a porn site.
    • fokdelafons 5 hours ago
      Thanks for flagging — I'll look into headers / hosting config to avoid false positives.
    • igor47 5 hours ago
      I think it's hugged to death?
  • chiengineer 2 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 55 minutes 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 5 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 5 hours ago
      Thanks, I’ll add clarification about the license in the description.
      • dang 4 hours ago
        Great thank you!