Whoops... (emphasis mine)
"
If an entity other than Agora owns any facilities with upkeep
costs, e must ****pay**** them before the first day of the next Agoran
month. Failing to do this destroys the facility. In the second to
last Eastman week of the Agoran Month, the Cartographor SHOULD
issue a humiliating public reminder to all those who have not paid
upkeep fees on any of eir facilities."
~Corona
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Aris Merchant <
thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 6:00 AM Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Ørjan Johansen wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Aris Merchant wrote:
> > >
> > > > Also, I like the multiset. The wording seems to me to be a clean,
> > generic
> > >
> > > In my intuition, all multisets of assets are currently sets, because
> > there are
> > > no *truly* identity-free assets. But it might be better for other
> > people's
> > > intuition I guess.
> >
> > I think, legally, there are identity-free assets, unless I misunderstand
> > what
> > you mean by that?
> >
> > Corona gives me a coin. Aris gives me a coin. I then give a coin to
> > Trigon. There's no way of knowing/tracking/distinguishing whether
> Trigon
> > now has Corona's coin or Aris's coin.
>
>
> No, Ørjan is probably right. I think the difference is between identity and
> interchablity. Currencies are interchangeable (well, fungible, which means
> the same thing) so we can't tell the difference between them, but it
> doesn't mean that they don't have identity. As a real world example, let's
> say you have a penny and I have a penny. Neither of them is marked in any
> weird way, and be couldn't tell the difference between them. Then I use my
> penny to pay for something. Your penny hasn't been used to pay for
> something, only mine has, so they have separate identity. By contrast, if
> we both think of the number 1, we're both thinking of the exact same
> number, because it's a singleton. Even only currency instances with the
> same owner lacked identity, you wouldn't be able to transfer a paper
> without transferring all of it. This works fine so long as the set of
> assets is clearly described as a set of instances, because asset types are
> definitely singletons.
>
> -Aris
>
> >
> >
>
