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Code is law is just a meme
by Fargoan 4y ago
Code 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