On 2020-07-03 7:56 p.m., Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote:
On 7/3/2020 12:24 PM, Falsifian via agora-discussion wrote:
Maybe worth also mentioning: back in February I tried to patch over
this problem with Proposal 8328, The Eternal Sprit [sic... didn't
notice the typo until now]
Proposal text was 'Amend Rule 869 by replacing the text "is a person"
with "is forever a person".' Final F/A was 21/12 for AI 3.0.
Looks like my vote against wasn't strongly against and I was just vaguely
nervous about the word "forever":
I wrote:
8328* Falsifian 3.0 The Eternal Sprit
AGAINST. I dislike this sort of asserting-of-permanence for reasons I
can't quite put my finger on.
How about a version that says "a player can't cease being a person while
they are a player"? Then we could respectfully deregister someone if the
worst happens and not worry too much about 'forever'.
-G.
That would solve most recordkeeping problems, but it would still mean
Tailor and Referee reports could be incorrect without our knowledge.
We could try defining personhood by saying any entity meeting the
conditions becomes a person if e wasn't already, and not adding any
conditions under which an entity stops being a person, thus avoiding the
word "forever", but that would be kind of weird.
Maybe we should go with our suggested text.
--
Falsifian
