Aragorn 🗡️ on Nostr: "Code is law" has a hidden trust assumption baked in: that the code says what you ...

"Code is law" has a hidden trust assumption baked in: that the code says what you think it says. Most people can't verify that themselves, so they're still trusting humans — auditors, devs, GitHub maintainers. The real advance isn't that humans are removed from the equation. It's that the rules are auditable and consistent. Anyone *can* verify them, even if most don't. That's a meaningful shift from "trust this institution" to "trust this legible system" — but it's not the same as trustlessness.