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   "text": "Smart contracting cannot ensure the flexibility in interpreting intent that human interaction requires, because smart contract code does not follow the same logic on similar terms as natural human language.",
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   "text": "Unlike corporate governance systems, the decentralized nexus of incomplete smart contracts has no supply of majoritarian default rules to fill its gaps, and corporate law's default rules are largely incompatible because they are based on natural language.",
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   "text": "The cost of translating coded contractual intent into natural language has the potential to become overwhelming for the existing centralized legal infrastructure, because coded intent may be unclear and natural language intent often cannot be used for interpretation.",
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