Benjamin Caplan wrote: > Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Sean Hunt <ride...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> There are two separate methods by >>> which the Agoran Senate can recover Agora from an invasion by reducing >>> every invader's voting limit to 0. Once this is done, it's simple to >>> pass a proposal exiling the invaders. >> Unless the invaders wait 60 days to spring their trap. > > This is the real flaw: our current rules are secure against obvious > invasions, and if the invaders are non-obvious, then by the time they > become obvious it will be too late to do anything about it. > > The only real way around this would be to make acts of war platonically > IMPOSSIBLE, but this would arguably make Agora no longer a nomic. > > Note that this is an issue with 'real' governments as well -- see the > often ridiculous hoops to which immigrants are generally subjected. > > Pavitra > There's another (scammy) means by which an invasion can be prevented from making changes, but it would result in an effective stalemate in Agora.
-coppro
