On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 17:50 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Ian Kelly wrote:
> > Rule 2148/2 reads, in part, "A foreign nomic may grant certain powers
> > and privileges to Agora's ambassador." "Power" is defined by R1688/4
> > to be a non-negative rational number which, if positive, makes its
>
> I'm not recording this as a win unless it's shown that "certain powers"
> in the generic sense that a foreign nomic might grant them is the same
> as power in the specific. I don't think it is. I also think that even
> if they were the same, R2148 does not raise the foreign nomic (as an
> instrument) to any power above zero, which would be a necessary first
> step to allow the foreign nomic to grant the ambassador a power above
> zero (R2140).
I really like this scam, but I think this is the where it breaks down
(and the only place it breaks down); the foreign nomic doesn't have a
non-zero power, and therefore cannot grant the ambassador a power above
zero. If one of Agora's rules were a nomic, then it might work better;
but there are no subnomics in the Agoran ruleset at the moment.
>
> I agree that "privileges" is generic in both R101 and R2148 and so
> probably works as described. -Goethe
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