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canjobear on Oct 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users

Physical laws and legal laws don't have anything in common except the name.

wyager on Oct 1, 2021 [–]

They 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”.

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