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> It's always felt like engineers thinking they're outsmarting a much more mature legal system with humans built-in to slap away foolish gotchas. And then the
by k2enemy 4y ago
> It's always felt like engineers thinking they're outsmarting a much more mature legal system with humans built-in to slap away foolish gotchas.
And then the engineers, unsatisfied with the messy world of human intervention, create a system without humans, where the "code is the contract" (ethereum). Then rapidly abandon that tenet at the first inconvenience and return to human discretion (DAO fork).
- hosh 4y agoBecause at the end of the day, non-fully-autonomous machinery are proxies for promises humans make to each other. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory)