On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 00:43, Jamie Dallaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Revisiting my B.N. thesis (11/29/07) on partnerships, I've identified >> the following general models of partnership control. Can anyone think >> of any others? > > Neat divisions! I'm not familiar with Agora's partnerships yet, and can't > recall seeing anything that would fall into the category I'm about to > propose anywhere else, but I think it's conceivable to add: >> >> * Consentual (e.g. Pineapple, Human Point Two) >> * Capitalist (e.g. Primo, Reformed Bank) >> * Unilateral (e.g. AFO) >> * Democratic (e.g. PerlNomic, Normish) > > * Automatic/External > > A partnership (if the rules here allow it) could potentially be initially > defined such that its post-creation doings (including self-amendment) would > fall entirely under the control of external events not easily influenced by > the partners themselves. Betting contracts/partnerships could be one nice > example, if all agency is only exercised when the partnership is > established. > > e.g. > > This is a partnership between X and Y. If the Dow hits 6000 before hitting > 12000, X must transfer 1000 chits [[not sure what those are yet...]] to Y. > Else, Y must transfer 1000 chits to X. > > (even more automatic, if partnerships can do that: the chits are surrendered > to the partnership upon its adoption, and then automatically distributed by > the partnership after external triggering) > I think Bayes would fall into this category as well.
BobTHJ
