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Because 'code is law' is a terrible expression to begin with. Law can be expressed with code, but law is ultimately a construct of human consensus. In the case
by yokem55 5y ago
Because 'code is law' is a terrible expression to begin with. Law can be expressed with code, but law is ultimately a construct of human consensus. In the case of the DAO hack, the human consensus forked away from the bugs in the code.
- wyager 5y agoThere are many laws that have nothing to do with human consensus. Physical laws, for example.
- canjobear 5y agoPhysical laws and legal laws don't have anything in common except the name.
- wyager 5y agoThey have a lot in common. They are admissibility conditions under a rule system. Same thing with laws encoded in a computer system. Your argument is circular; “code isn’t law because I’ve redefined the word ‘law’ to explicitly preclude it”.