The War of the Wordsmiths What to do? • Get rid of the wordsmiths? Not likely… • Train the wordsmiths? Ditto... • Use algebra to convert? No: • vagueness, uncertainty, unpredictability… efficient! • Subsets? No, it was all equally important / not important • Duplicate prose with bytes? • not good if contracts are a weapon… What’s left? Simplify …. 54

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