On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:33, Geoffrey Spear<geoffsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Benjamin Caplan > <celestialcognit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The idea is that there would be some people that aren't interested in >> being legislators, but are interested in other parts of the game >> (judging, contract subgames, etc.) I refer again to the analogy with >> Posture: a person can be an active participant without judging; the same >> should be true of voting. >> >> This would also be an important step toward Agora growing larger and >> more powerful. At the moment, the Rules can only really affect people >> who are interested in helping to make them, which is significantly >> unlike most "real-world" legal systems. Enabling "civilians" could >> increase the Agoran population by a factor of four, helping Agora to >> come into its own as the true superpower of nomics. > > I find it hard to believe that the population would increase by a > factor of 4. People who don't want to be involved in changing the > rules probably won't be very attracted to nomic, and people who just > want to play a game but don't want to influence the changing of the > rules probably don't want to play one where the rules are changing all > the time. To keep track of the game you're playing, you pretty much > have to pay attention to the proposals anyway, and not trying to > influence them to your own advantage in the non-rule-changing gameplay > would be a horrible strategy. > I personally find that most proposal distributions I could care less about. I do tend overall to play Agora for the contract sub-games and not for the rule-making system. That doesn't mean I'm not interested at all, it's just not my primary area of interest. I personally wouldn't want to be penalized for not voting on a distribution just because I didn't want to take the the time to muddle my way through it's bland proposals (and yes, I could just blanket vote PRESENT, which is what I do on occasion, but sometimes I fail to get around to it).
Oddly, one of my primary areas of interest in Agora is in recordkeeping large quantities of trivial yet interesting information....which even I find kind of weird. BobTHJ
