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scarcegreengrass comments on Are smart contracts AI-complete? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 June 2016 02:08PM

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Comment author: Slider 22 June 2016 10:56:03PM 0 points [-]

Court can order computers dismantled. And I think there are methods for state to aquire property if it can be shown to be a "vechicle of crime". It is afterall the state that controls the monopoly on violence needed to enforce private property in the first place.

Comment author: scarcegreengrass 23 June 2016 01:46:26PM 2 points [-]

Note however that in this case the code is being run on thousands or millions of anonymous machines; physical dismantling would be very difficult.