On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 14:21 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I intend, with notice, to cause Rule 2324 to: > a) enact a Rule with power-1, title "Article V", and the following text: > Murphy CAN cause this rule to make arbitrary gamestate changes, > except for any amendment of Rule 2223, by announcement. > b) and then repeal itself. > > [Note: this is proof-of-concept, I think it's possible to use the 4-day > notice to generally keep ahead of a rule change proposal that has to > unambiguously specify a change. A promotor/assessor conspiracy with some > automation could possibly beat this, although it would give rise to the > possibility of veto, etc.]
Incidentally, the proposals in question weren't meant to be immune to dictator, according to IRC disccusion; they were just meant to clear the dictatorship out from the ruleset given the apparent inactivity of the dictator. (A classic case of a race condition...) Actually removing a dictatorship by proposal is, I fear, basically impossible, especially if the dictatorship is at power 3, except if the dictator is not paying attention, or doesn't mind it being removed. An alert dictator could just use a sufficiently powerful dictatorship to do things like repeal, or temporarily disable, the rules which would allow the dictatorship to be removed. (The 4-day approval period could be avoided merely by repealing rule 101, giving everyone else just the one chance to beat the dictatorship with an urgent proposal and timing scam.) -- ais523
