On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hereby request Protectorate status for my computer (strictly speaking > for its software) which is named selim. I have full access to this computer; > so as long as I am an Agoran player, it's "gamestate" is arranged so that > Agora may require me (through proposals etc.) to make arbitrary changes to > it, this should be sufficient "specification".
I don't think demanding that you do something to your computer really counts as "any protective decree proclaimed by the ambassador will take full effect upon proclamation." Really, you'd need to give the Ambassador the ability to execute arbitrary code. And arguably you'd need to provide some slick AI that could translate a decree written in plain English into that arbitrary code immediately and execute it. Besides, Agora would be taking on the responsibility to do its best to make your computer function better as a nomic, which almost certainly is at odds with making it function better as a computer. For one thing, imperial nomics are bad for the nomic community and it would be necessary to ensure that your software was set up to be as democratic as possible, and to prevent you from regaining control over your system as a dictator. Running anti-virus software would really seem to be the opposite of what we should do.
