Ed Murphy wrote:
> coppro wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> What do you have in mind? Bear in mind that the invaders can deputise
> for the Assessor.
>
Actually, I just realized that one of the voting-limit 0 methods (which
basically involves the Grand Poobah pulling out a very illegal but very
valid machine gun) doesn't rely on the Senate.
