Code is Law
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JC pontificates about technology
An occasional series.
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Are the days of legal contracts as discrete ontological things, abstracted and divorced from our bio- and eco-mechanical beings, numbered?
Not really, in this contrarian’s view. If they were, they would have gone by now.
Code is law is a variation of the Boolean view of language that it is an exercise in symbol processing in which meaning and data are identical, in contradiction to the idea that meaning is a “betweenness” thing