On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Aris Merchant wrote: >> I pend "Conditionals and Determinacy" by paying 1 shiny to Agora. > > Having read this, this is a place that has functioned through the Courts > for at least 15 years, and I prefer to keep it that way. > > First because attempting to legislate and codify circular logic leaves > it more open to breaking via that very circular logic, whereas "unwritten > common sense" can cut through logical loops. (Suber has a nice article > on this topic in the Metamagical Themas chapter on nomic). > > Second because I think it's interesting gameplay-wise to continue to leave > some deep mechanisms under the purview of the judiciary. > > So, in the balance of legislative and common law, I'd put conditionals > on the common law side. Probably, among everything else that's common > law, this is the one I would most want to keep there. > > -G.
I don't object to having it be common law, but every time I add a game mechanic, like when I made it possible to add conditionals to agencies, someone always tells me I need to paradox proof it. [1] Agoran common law only works if everyone agrees to believe in it, and from experience they don't seem to on this one. [1] https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-discussion/2017-April/041656.html -Aris
