On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 13:27 -0400, comex wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >>> And finally, the hypocrisy of partnerships is revealed here. >> >> Says one of the original partners of the Pineapple Partnership.
It was useful for the brief time that a few folks were actually interested in "equity = actual equity = Agora as equity contract(sorta)" but it became pretty unworkable when we tended back to "I hate equity, this is nomic, scams are the norm and we don't want to consider intent". I'm ok with that choice, but since that choice has become clear, partnerships have ceased to be true equity partnerships in which responsibilities are devolved and are now "just another scam instrument/Agoran construct" which have run their course. As far as I know, the Pineapple Partnership never violated the Agoran contract and devolved its responsibilities just fine. It really is a pity about the PNP. That was the one that was functioning as envisioned. If the recently-raised equity case shows that the PNP is able to regulate itself with Agoran equity as a tool, I'd consider that we haven't wholly failed and that it's worth re-electing it. I'll wait and see. [Note: Bayes fits in another category altogether, which is "striving to be a natural person" It would be interesting to see if we could refactor and create a "type" of contract known as a "proto-AI" or something, with the requirement that such AIs must function with a specifically limited amount of human intervention. Dunno how we would enforce that though.] -Goethe.
