On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a bit embarrassed about everything going on, so I'll deregister. > > In my defense for the latest thing, I did take a situation which is entirely > innocuous to the rest of the game (trust tokens, who uses them? And even > then, you could still issue them yourself whenever. No urgency or > significant connection to everything else, unless you make it so.) and I did > put a warning that it was exotic territory: > http://www.mail-archive.com/agora-business@agoranomic.org/msg28889.html, and > I repeated it as I discussed it. > > So, I was aware that it deviant. That's why I made it separate and I put a > notice about it in the first place. But then it started to escalate and I > don't mind when its limited to the lounge of talking about what I've brought > up, but then it started to spill everywhere else somehow, and that wasn't my > intent. > > I tried for it to be separate from everyone else's concerns and whoever was > interested in it, could participate, with me deliberately choosing a > situation that I believed that pretty much anyone not into it could just > ignore. That's why I chose that compartmentalized situation it and added > frequent notices that yes, I'm going pretty off-shore with what I'm using as > premises. Or maybe trying to do stuff like that doesn't work at all at the > Agoran context. At least, for me personally, it does work. I ignore pretty > much everything except replies on my own things on a-b, for example. And I > haven't read any of the discussion about the economy or all of those > doohickeys, because whatever result about that will be cool with me. But > maybe its not the same for everyone else. > > If I'm guilty of using deviant interpretation, sure. That was what I was > using. I already know that it has an extremely low chance of being broadly > taken as correct, because it uses a set of "axioms" (which are arbitrary), > which don't have much in common with the majority. But while it has that > extremely low chance - if by some feat of skill, discovery and luck, I > actually *do* make it work, then whoa. That makes it worthwhile for me. > Proving the impossible. > > But oh well. I think its better for the both of us if I dereg for now. I do > enjoy discussing things with several people here, perhaps once I learn to > how to better separate the shell from the oyster we can dine on good > discussion together here again. > > (and I'll go and suck on my shells somewhere else lol).
I have no clue what the appropriate response is, so I'm just going to restrict this to a technical point (note that I take no game actions in this message): you have to actually say "I deregister". -Aris
