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I firmly believe that it will be. However it won't be anytime soon because this entails a transition similar to going from rule by king to rule by laws. The la

by bsedlm 5y ago

I firmly believe that it will be. However it won't be anytime soon because this entails a transition similar to going from rule by king to rule by laws. The law is (nowdays) is backed by writing, and since I think that computing is a next step in the evolution of writing (along with printing press) one day---likely in dozens of generations (hundreds of years)---the law will be backed by computing. All these technologies change the nature of a human's consiouness; it will take hundreds of years. Look at Walter Ong's work for better made arguments along these lines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Ong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Ong

zdkl 5y ago
You're missing the point that flexibility of interpretation and "execution" is a very much desired feature.
- bsedlm 5y ago
  And you're missing the point that these things exist for humans
  - divyekapoor 5y ago
    +1 Law is human-to-human agreement about a lot of vague soft stuff. Code APIs are computer-computer agreement. Some exceptions to the above are: 1. Financial contracts (see ISDA derivatives). They're written with a big "human" document upfront and then there's a "notification addendum" attached to each use of that contract. 2. Master Sales Agreements (MSAs): The first MSA is a human-to-human agreement. Everything after that is order-forms. And negotiating the MSA requirements is very very human (risk, trust, effort, cost, benefit & promises). Order forms are pricing decisions that can be "automated" (especially around annual renewals if within budget without red flags).
    - mengwong 5y ago
      Yeah, the more black-and-white domains tend to be financial and commercial – and in those domains, there have been some pretty cool illustrations: http://complaw.stanford.edu/complaw/readings/sla.pdf http://complaw.stanford.edu/complaw/readings/sla.pdf
  - ska 5y ago
    > these things exist for humans so does law.
  - zdkl 5y ago
    As do all laws. You have a point about contracts though, assuming we admit contracts between non-moral parties to actually be a legally enforceable thing. If your would-be law/contract/??? can't get both sides in front of a court, one ought to disregard its terms.

by bsedlm 5y ago

zdkl 5y ago

You're missing the point that flexibility of interpretation and "execution" is a very much desired feature.

bsedlm 5y ago
And you're missing the point that these things exist for humans
- divyekapoor 5y ago
  +1 Law is human-to-human agreement about a lot of vague soft stuff. Code APIs are computer-computer agreement. Some exceptions to the above are: 1. Financial contracts (see ISDA derivatives). They're written with a big "human" document upfront and then there's a "notification addendum" attached to each use of that contract. 2. Master Sales Agreements (MSAs): The first MSA is a human-to-human agreement. Everything after that is order-forms. And negotiating the MSA requirements is very very human (risk, trust, effort, cost, benefit & promises). Order forms are pricing decisions that can be "automated" (especially around annual renewals if within budget without red flags).
  - mengwong 5y ago
    Yeah, the more black-and-white domains tend to be financial and commercial – and in those domains, there have been some pretty cool illustrations: http://complaw.stanford.edu/complaw/readings/sla.pdf http://complaw.stanford.edu/complaw/readings/sla.pdf
- ska 5y ago
  > these things exist for humans so does law.
- zdkl 5y ago
  As do all laws. You have a point about contracts though, assuming we admit contracts between non-moral parties to actually be a legally enforceable thing. If your would-be law/contract/??? can't get both sides in front of a court, one ought to disregard its terms.