Re: DIS: [proto] Fix zombie auctions

[Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion]

On 2/18/2020 11:43 AM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 19:04, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
> <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
>> On 2/18/2020 10:45 AM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote:
>>>       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, and
>>>       Agora CAN transfer zombies by willing it to be done.
>>
>> Did I miss a new definition of "willing" something to be done?  Agora has
>> no will (kind of like "consent", that's reserved for natural persons, by a
>> couple of precedents) and even if it had a "will" it's got no mechanism
>> for communicating its will?
> 
> I intended the text to do two things: first, make it so that Agora
> "CAN transfer the items in that lot to that winner at will" so that
> R2551 triggers properly, and also, to satisfy R2125's stipulation that
> actions only be performed using mechanisms supplied by the rules
> (otherwise R2551 might fail to actually cause Agora to transfer the
> zombie).
> 
> Not sure if it actually works.

I think there's a deep-ish question here - if the rules say that an entity
CAN do something by a physically impossible (not rules-impossible) method,
does it qualify as an appropriate CAN?

E.g. If the rules say "a player CAN transfer a Slice of Pi by announcing
the final digit of pi" does that mean e CAN auction a Pi Slice if e's got
one?  (I mean, that's a method, it's just an impossible-to-do one).

-G.