On 4/22/23 05:34, Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-business wrote:
I don't see many CFJs answering these odd philosophical questions but after
reading the Vlad theses (thanks nix for the recommendation), it bothers me
that it seems that, to some ambiguous extent, I perhaps implicitly accept
that the original Agora currently exists in the way that it does and that
some portion, or all, of its history until now supports it that it does in
fact exist and didn't just catastrophically break at some point along the
way; possibly secretly or without anyone at all realizing it.
There are actually a handful of events that have led to disagreement
about this exact thing through Agoran history. I'll leave it to someone
that was there during them (and has more time to write a message) to
give summaries.
But it's also worth noting that the very original Agora doesn't seem to
have played as platonically as we currently do; ie, an accepted mistake
would be treated as the reality of the game often-times, without need
for some ratification process. There's another thesis, Vanyel's
*Pragmatism and Platonism* that deals with the early history of this. If
you interpret Agora pragmatically, then nothing can really break it as
long as players collectively agree on what to do next.
--
nix
Prime Minister, Herald
