On Mon, 30 Aug 2021, Jason Cobb via agora-business wrote:
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ID: 8599
Title: The Device (mark 2)
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors: Murphy
[inspired by Rules 2192-2193, "The Monster", by Murphy]
Enact a Rule "The Device" with the following text:
When the device is on:
* click - hummmmmmm
When the device is off:
* whirrrrrr - THUNK
Enact a Rule "The Mad Engineer" with the following text:
The Mad Engineer is an office; its holder is responsible for
building and maintaining the Device. The device is a
singleton switch with values off (default) and on. The Mad
Engineer CAN flip the device to either on or off with Agoran
Consent; any other player CAN do so with 2 Agoran Consent.
The Mad Engineer CAN act on behalf of
the device to take any action that the device may take, and
SHALL act on behalf of the device to ensure that the device
fulfills all of its duties.
The Mad Engineer's weekly duties include the performance of the
following tasks, in order:
a) Randomly select exactly one rule. If the selected rule is
either this rule or the rule "The Device", then
007 has been spotted near the self-destruct button; skip
directly to proposal submission.
b) Select one or more contiguous sentences from the selected
rule.
c) Select exactly one noun from the selected text, and replace
each instance of that noun with "Device" (including
grammatical variations, e.g. replacing "<noun>'s" with
"Device's").
d) Announce intent to, with Agoran Consent, cause this rule
to amend the rule "The Device" by inserting the modified
text as the last list item in either the "device on" or
"device off" lists in that rule (or, if 007 has been
spotted, to repeal both that rule and this one).
This intent announcement counts as the Mad Engineers's weekly
report.
If the announcement of intent above is made with the procedure
described above, the Mad Engineer CAN, with Agoran Consent, cause
this rule to amend the rule "The Device" as indicated, and SHALL
do so if the intent receives sufficient support.
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The parts about self-destruction seem broken to me. They switch
ambiguously between whether it shall happen by proposal or with intent,
neither clearly requiring either nor enabling the latter.
Greetings,
Ørjan.
