Proto for time protection (a homage to B Nomic):
Amend Rule 1698 (Agora Is A Nomic) by replacing its first paragraph
with:
Agora is ossified if it is IMPOSSIBLE for any reasonable
combination of actions by players to cause arbitrary rule changes
to be made and/or arbitrary proposals to be adopted within a
four-week period. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, dates and
times in Agora refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [*]
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Comments:
[*] The first sentence is for context and unchanged. I thought about a
longer version e.g. "Time CANNOT pass at any other rate" or similar but I
think just stating "time is always UTC" as above does the trick without
adding extra stuff that could break - thoughts??
History:
Over a year ago it was pointed out that "time" as a concept is not at all
protected; for example in the "four-week period" above it would be trivial
to pass a proposal "a week in Agora lasts 25 years" or something, given that
R1023 (Agoran Time) is only power-2.
For those not up on Nomic History, B Nomic was a long-running nomic with a
"game clock" concept where you could start and stop the clock (stopping the
clock was supposed to drop you into a kind of debug mode to freeze the game
state while fixing rules). Due to a rules bug the clock got stuck at being
permanently stopped and killed the game.
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