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Mathematician at The George Washington University. I write about teaching, epistemology, math, and metascience, and how hidden assumptions shape our decisions and beliefs.
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There's this fantasy a lot of techies and gamers have, that we can define a relatively simple set of concrete rules that demarcate all legal behaviors, removing the need for human judgment.

Every time someone's tried to do this for a non-trivial system, either the system is held together by the honor system or the system has failed, e.g., the "code is law" crypto folks using out-of-band mechanisms to roll back legal transactions that subverted the intent of the creators.