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Re:Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready by n-exploit on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:36PM (#21319901)
"Will emerging technologies make the state system obsolete? It’s hard to see why not."

Honest question - could the U.S. Government be considered an Abstract State Machine?

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Re:Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready by soganess on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:37PM (#21320187)
If you squint, I could buy that as a way of describing the execution of policy (a state machine could, for example, oversee wealth redistribution payments) but not as a description of policy making entities.
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