Eventually there will be smart contracts with assigned arbitrators capable of undoing dependent smart contract transactions, with the right to execute granted by a separate smart contract, which is controlled by a vote to be taken by a randomly selected set of peers in the community, who must first watch in total a video of the aggrieved and offending parties position their argument.
And arbitration contracts that can arbitrate the arbitration contracts, and so on.
And perhaps a smart contract to allow the amendment of existing contract, by vote of a group of wallets who’ve been elected by another smart contract, who’ve been elected by another smart contract with a larger pool of voters, and so on, until all stakeholders in the contract have had the chance to cast a vote, whose duration as a voter is limited to a 2-4 year term, before requiring another voting round.
Maybe. But you still need an override from real courts, when the contracts fail.
That's what courts are for. When someone finds an exploit in the smart contract there must be a "no that's clearly not what anyone meant. Nobody actually wanted all the money in the world to go to Hacker McHackerface".
If your assumption is that one of these contract layers is "perfect", then it's not realistic.
Thats why you have the arbitration contract… to allow an arbiter to undo the work, with the reasoning “this isn’t what was intended”
But anyways that was in jest; the crypto community will eventually recreate the same systems and bureaucracies already in play today as they run into all the edge cases that occur with traditional currency (fundamentally: currency carries provenance and is only fungible until its not, and the transfer of funds between two parties does not actually involve only the two parties — and lawyers write excessively defensive, excessively long contracts for a reason).
And arbitration contracts that can arbitrate the arbitration contracts, and so on.
And perhaps a smart contract to allow the amendment of existing contract, by vote of a group of wallets who’ve been elected by another smart contract, who’ve been elected by another smart contract with a larger pool of voters, and so on, until all stakeholders in the contract have had the chance to cast a vote, whose duration as a voter is limited to a 2-4 year term, before requiring another voting round.