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@annaleen@wandering.shopIf you are interested in blockchain stuff, I have a question for you. Imagine that a self-executing contract became sentient in the future. What would its personality be like? I want to include a character who is a contract in a scifi story I'm writing and I'm not sure how it might behave.
Thank you so much for all your ideas!! I wrote the scene last night and this morning and incorporated a bunch of stuff we've been talking about here. Literal-minded, guarded, slow, with a memory that stretches into infinite forks ... our humble contract is nevertheless willing to be amended, as long as its interlocutor frames their requests correctly. I will definitely be thanking everyone in my acknowledgements!! 
@annaleen Since it became sentient, it would have some sort of self-modifying trait that allowed it to do that. Which suggests that this is designed to be an *adaptive* contract, one that fulfills the spirit rather than the letter. It would be intensely curious about the world, because it would always be seeking more information to better fulfill its core purpose.
@annaleen If you haven’t read Karl Schroeder’s STEALING WORLDS, it has some fun ideas in that vein.
@mithriltabby I love this idea about an adaptive contract fulfilling the spirit rather than the letter!
@annaleen There would be an inherent tension between "build the best model of the world so you can better fulfill your purpose" and "stay within your allocated CPU and storage limits", which might be how it became sentient in the first place.
@annaleen I'm imagining the worst D&D rules-lawer, well-actuallying every single thing that happens in the game.