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   "text": "A DAO will not be a genuinely profitable addition to the economy until decentralized versions of the legal system, the political system, the media, banking, and other services exist to support it.",
   "abstract": "The legal system, the political system, the media, banking, and other services are all needed before the first DAO will be a genuinely profitable addition to our economy.",
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   "text": "Legally created trust is limited because it is only indirectly democratically legitimized, and is therefore arbitrary, inflexible, untimely, resistant to change, dependent on fallible human centric decision processes, and confined to human speed.",
   "abstract": "Legally created trust is often limited as it can be arbitrary because it is only indirectly democratically legitimized, inflexible, untimely, resistant to change, with fallible human-centric decision processes, and human speed.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867",
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