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This is terrible obviously, but if code is law and someone writes bad code and exploits that is it “illegal”? The entire basis of even having judges, courts, e
by endisneigh 4y ago
This is terrible obviously, but if code is law and someone writes bad code and exploits that is it “illegal”?
The entire basis of even having judges, courts, etc is an acknowledgment that the “code” is imperfect and certain circumstances require human intervention.
Going without that is, well… YMMV.
- Fargoan 4y agoCode is law is just a meme
- misnome 4y agoIsn't it a consequence? If the entire foundation of your system is irreversibility and finality, then doesn't it effective becomes true? (unless you are big enough to force a network-wide rollback...).
- cinntaile 4y agoIf you ignore the fact that the actual law might have something to say about this, then sure.
- ghaff 4y agoBut that's exactly what the decentralized crowd is arguing. You encode transactions and no centralized authority (e.g. a country's judicial system backed by people with guns) can override it. A natural consequence is that no one can override a mistake either. Legal contracts in the physical world can be poorly drafted as well. But courts don't usually allow ludicrous results arising from honest mistakes.
- cinntaile 4y agoThe law doesn't care if I argue it doesn't apply to me.
- dylan604 4y agoCode is law only if you are an NPC. If you are a normal user, code is just rules that are potentially breakable
- RyanCavanaugh 4y agoIf regular law is the ultimate arbiter of the correct location of funds in this system, then we don't need this complex network of energy-hungry computers constantly double-checking each others' work to make a financial system. We can just use regular computers, like before.
- Fargoan 4y agoWe don't need the web because we can go back to BBSs
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoDo people go to jail for writing bad laws?
- harambae 4y agoI honestly wondered the same thing during the VW emissions scandal. The requirement was that diesel emissions were at a certain level under those exact conditions... And they were OK under those exact exact conditions. (Anyway it turned out there was a specific carve out for cheater devices and they did get in trouble)