Hello everyone!

[Worldtree]

here are some essays i had read a while ago about writing laws as code... and some of the problems with that approach.

this is obviously a very complex philosophical and political problem which people are dealing with around the world right now. and this will likely evolve over the next centuries or millenia.. in real life and within the OA setting , presumably.

and since i am neither a lawyer nor a professional software engineer, I won't pretend to understand these topics in depth, beyond the words in the essays.

These essays articulate many of the concerns i have with the approach you might be describing in v-system. - that "Code is Law" and "laws can be implemented as code and be perfect and logical and can be universally executed..
so perhaps reading through these will give inspiration for how v-system could go wrong..
like in many science fiction stories, you say "here is a technology and it works this way... but what happens when it goes wrong??" then drama happens

https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2021/09...ood-thing/
https://dtinit.org/blog/2023/08/01/law-isnt-code

https://www.geeklawblog.com/2024/12/when...-code.html

OA is science fiction of course so it's quite possible you could write about v-system implemented in OA.. but i imagine there are a wide variety of problems and barriers you could describe in the worldbuilding too..