Interesting perspective (putting aside the Bitcoin bubble for a moment) that trust in governments and human institutions is faltering. Ultimately human governance is a form of algorithm, with its own strengths and flaws.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/opinion/bitcoin-boom-technology-trust.html …
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Aankit it’s hard to explain the analogy fully in one tweet, but there are many parallels between a government and an operating system, or between individual laws/contracts and an algorithm. In fact, Estonia aims to replace as much of its govt with algorithms as possible.
And most of the human-executed processes we use in government (eg primaries and elections, or how a bill passes through houses of Congress to become a law) are also algorithms you could explain with pseudocode or a flowchart
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Flowchart != Algorithm. A process is not an algorithm and conflating/confusing the two is dangerous. I'm in India now and the "algorithm" for driving is not the same. Given we are testing self-driving cars in the States is a clear example of governance not being generalizable.
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Governance is something a group of people consent to, not math
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