On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 10:15 AM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:04 AM Kerim Aydin <ke...@uw.edu> wrote: > >> >> On 7/21/2019 1:40 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: >> > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 8:59 AM James Cook <jc...@cs.berkeley.edu> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> CoE: The Proposal Pool is not empty. I think it still contains my >> >> "Police Power" proposal. >> > >> > >> > Rejected. It is the opinion of the Office of the Promotor that an >> > error in a non-substantive aspect of a proposal doesn’t invalidate >> > that proposal, and merely requires that it be corrected. >> >> It was wrong in one of the essential parameters, right? >> >> I think this is really contradictory to your stance on creating >> proposals in the first place - you're stating that a Proposer has >> to get it right (e.g. for AI) or the whole thing fails. But the >> Promotor, who is doing an official job that actually performs the >> duty is allowed to get it wrong, and it still succeeds? Awfully >> convenient on the Promotor but not good for accurate voting. >> >> That seems 100% backwards in my mind but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >> >> I vote based on essential parameters (AI in particular but the >> rules include all of them). If you claim to distribute a >> proposal with the wrong essential parameters, you're claiming >> that you distributed a proposal that doesn't actually exist. >> >> -G. >> > > You may have a point. It isn’t actually significantly easier for me to > correct the distribution than redistribute it; my theory has historically > been that for some errors, such as errors in coauthor, the Agoran public > would find me doing that much more annoying than useful. That said, my > reasoning is entirely based on convenience for the public, rather than the > interests of the game. So, IMO, if this doesn’t work, it probably makes > sense to make it so it does work. What are your thoughts on the best way to > resolve the situation? > > -Aris > Bleh. I typoed pretty bad there. Instead of “the interests of the game”, read “a reading of the rules”. -Aris
