On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 03:26, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 7:44 PM James Cook <jc...@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > Could you elabourate? Even if we should pretend zombies are assets, it's
> > not always true that an asset's owner CAN transfer it. E.g. if I had blots
> > and auctioned them off, I don't think anything would allow me to transfer
> > them to the winner of the auction.
>
> Well... the specific wording is whether e CAN transfer them "at will".
> Rule 955 is titled "Determining the Will of Agora", and its text
> explains how to determine the outcome of Agoran decisions, such as
> proposals. It's only a medium-sized leap to infer that Agora can do
> something "at will" if a proposal can cause it to do it.
Ha, maybe. Here's another argument, though: Master is secured at a
power threshold of 2. Rule 2551 ("Auction End") only has power 1. I
doubt Rule 2551 can get around that by saying it's Agora doing it
rather than R2551, but if it can, I guess that could be used as an
escalation scam.
The text "For the purpose of such a auction, to transfer a zombie to a
player is to set that zombie's master switch to that player." is in a
power-2 rule, but if I understand right, that just changes how R2551
should be interpreted; it doesn't get around R2551 having lower power.
