On 10/20/2019 12:04 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote:
> Right now, I submit the following proposal, "Undo This Proposal", AI 1:
> {{{{
> Create a new Power-0.5 rule, "Repeal This Rule":
> {{{
> When this rule is repealed by a proposal, the author of that proposal
> wins the game.
>
> When this rule is repealed by means other than a proposal, the author
> of the most recent message that was a causal factor of the repeal of
> the rule wins the game. (A message is a "causal factor" of an event if
> the event occurred, but would not have occurred if the message had not
> been sent.)
> }}}
> }}}}
>
Does this actually work? When the rule is repealed, it's gone, and
therefore can't cause a win. You could say it's a fencepost issue (e.g. the
repeal and the win happen simultaneously) but that doesn't really work,
because it's a logical contradiction: "only an existing rule can cause a
win, so if it causes a win, it hasn't been repealed".
-G.
