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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 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).




Because 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)




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