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Re:Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest c... by homogeneous on Monday May 16, 2016 @05:50PM (#11709920)
How does the DOA know that the robot factory in Shenzen was built successfully and to specification?
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Re:Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest c... by cloudjacker on Monday May 16, 2016 @06:57PM (#11710269)
Presumably when new robots start executing based on the signature of the smart contract and conducting tasks in line with the contract. The main goal would be the new machines, not necessarily the means to the end.
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Re:Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest c... by homogeneous on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @11:41AM (#11714544)
Presumably when new robots start executing based on the signature of the smart contract and conducting tasks in line with the contract.

What if they don't build the robots but instead execute whatever payload the contract anticipates using a laptop?

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Re:Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest c... by WeaselNo7 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @06:07AM (#11712365)
It could hire human agents to inspect and confirm. I guess you could treat the DAO as an exceptional manager who has no domain knowledge at all, but knows to delegate to people with domain knowledge.
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Re:Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest c... by homogeneous on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @11:24AM (#11714412)
What if the human employees lie, are incompetent, or collude with the subject of their inspection in exchange for part of the pay out?
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Re:Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest c... by fudged71 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:05PM (#11718359)
Funny enough, these autonomous anonymous corporations will require the exact opposite to carry out many trust-required operations
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Re:Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest c... by fudged71 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @07:04PM (#11718354)
It's inspectors all the way down. Recursive inspection.
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