Meta-algorithmic judicial reasoning engine 2 by YuriKozlov | 0 comments on Hacker News. We’re experimenting with an architecture for automated adjudication that doesn’t rely on rule bases or statistical prediction. Instead of encoding law as “if–else” rules or training a model on past cases, we model abstract legal reasoning as a meta-algorithm: a control layer that orchestrates several heterogeneous components — hard-coded logic, numerical modeling, and structured natural-language procedures executed by an LLM. The core idea is that the structure of legal reasoning (which stages to run, how to select and interpret norms, how to balance competing interests, when to revise earlier conclusions) is expressed in a strongly typed pseudocode / meta-language. Some parts of this meta-algorithm are implemented directly in code (procedural checks, basic qualification, graph updates), some are mathematical (utilities, equilibria, fuzzy uncertainty), and some are written as high-level instructi...