On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, omd wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > Ah, yes. I create a slave golem named "scshunt CAN deregister. G. can
> > cause
> > this rule to amend itself by announcement. No one "
>
> Since slave golems are supposed to be repealed in the same set of
> actions as the creation of the Machiavelli rule, I don't see how this
> will work. Personhood and Playerhood of Nomics isn't in the list of
> rules to repeal, though, so you can just make a nomic. (Incidentally,
> I just noticed that once the changes are enacted, that rule will
> purport to give all nomics voting rights, but fail due to precedence.)
The rule says the text needs to be the "name of a person". Once a
name has been associated with a person, that text is still the name
of a particular person even if that person ceases to exist.
So we associate the text with a person name now, before we lose a
method of creating persons with arbitrary names. Once associated,
the actual change can be made even after golems cease to be.
That's the theory, anyway.
