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by biztos 1660 days ago
What if they could have that power?

Imagine something like Robocop hooked up to the EVM, if you put your RealID in the escrow contract and then the ubiquitous camera network is unable to verify that you honored the transaction, well then you have 15 seconds to comply…
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pjc50 1660 days ago
I worry that this is the endgame; you say "distributed organisation", I say "autonomous cyberweapon".

We're not that far from having a DAO that can bid on zero-days and use them against a list of targets of its choice. If a DAO can make POST requests it can launch exploits. A script kiddie without the kiddie.

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tshaddox 1660 days ago
Sure, but if you had a sufficiently powerful robot you could also circumvent traditional means of enforcing ownership and contracts.
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