The Limits of Cryptography

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A lot of contracts people want to write are not the sort of thing that at least today we can turn into code. Our code has to be airtight, it has to be completely unambiguous and executable whereas if you look at real human contracts they very rarely are of that nature. Now maybe we'll one day live in a world where with AI we can have contracts that have ambiguity but AI can still resolve them or something like thisbut we're not in that world yet at least.

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