Re: <nettime> Ethereum: DAO - "The Attacker"

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

This looks more and more like experimental evidence that being human 
requires being in control (and remaining in the loop). While such 
statement is obvious, I think this is the first example where the 
automation harmed its owners on a large scale (outside fiction).

Harming *others* with automation, on the other hand, is old and tested 
phenomenon.

Are we trying to create God, to relieve us from responsibility? Is it 
possible that the race to automate is not really about the few 
controlling the many?

> So, any system that does not accommodate for the expression and
> control of power and for self-conscious, accountable decision-making
> under circumstances of uncertainty and internal disagreement, cannot
> work other than a dictatorship that centralizes power and politics in
> closed circles to hide it from view.

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