On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:24:30 +0000 Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 22:26 +0100, Luis Ressel wrote: > > I flip my budget switch for The Agoran Credit Union to 10. > I flip my budget switch for The Agoran Credit Union to 30. (This > reminds me suspiciously of the Points Party, but if it's going to > backfire, it'd be interesting to see how.) > > > In the actions below, by "publishing" I'm referring to the act of > > publishing, so past actions don't count. > > > > I bet 5 Expenditure that no valid Agoran Newspaper will be published > > before Dec 24. > > > > I bet 5 Expenditure that no valid FLR will be published before Dec > > 24. > > > > I bet 5 Expenditure that no valid Census will be published before > > Dec 24. > > Hmm, I'm trying to work out if this actually works within the current > betting framework (given the fix in my previous message; it certainly > doesn't work right now, and thus I'm not accepting any of these yet in > case you try to scam the current wording via objecting to my proposed > fix). The problem is that there hasn't been an FLR published right > now, so it's arguable that if I accepted the bet (I'm tempted to > accept the FLR one, given that I can work out the FLR contents even > when I'm offline), you'd instantly win it. Perhaps we need an update > to the contract, or perhaps there's no problem. (This sort of thing > commonly happens with new rules/contracts! We can hopefully get the > teething problems sorted out over the next few days.) > I think you're right; this really looks like a problem. And right now I don't have an idea how to fix it, either. -- aranea
