On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 9:03 AM Forest Sweeney via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 4:37 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-official < > agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > [Apologies for not waiting for more input from the Caller, but if I > > don't assign this now it may be nearly a week before I can. Hopefully > > Yachay can still provide something timely, or Judge 4st has some > > knowledge of the controversy.] > > > > The below CFJ is 4032. I assign it to 4st. > > > > status: https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/#4032 > > > > =============================== CFJ 4032 > =============================== > > > > There are some persons right now who have more than 0 Rice. > > > > > ========================================================================== > > > > Caller: Yachay > > > > Judge: 4st > > > > > ========================================================================== > > > > History: > > > > Called by Yachay: 25 May 2023 19:17:23 > > Assigned to 4st: [now] > > > > > ========================================================================== > > > > Caller's Arguments: > > > > [none provided so far] > > > > > ========================================================================== > > > > [draft] Thanks Janet for providing more detail and expectations from this case! Hopefully the below reasoning can be found sufficient enough to submit as the resolution to the case itself. Evidence: Rule 2682/0 (Power=1) The Rice Game The Ricemastor is an office, in charge of tracking Rice, Rice Plans and Signatures. Rice is a fixed asset, ownable only by players. Any active player can create a Rice Plan by announcement, if e hasn't done so yet in the current week. Rice Plans can have Signatures, and each Signature must be of an active player. A Rice Plan has an active player's Signature as long as that player is consenting to it. An active player can destroy a Rice Plan that e has created by announcement. A Harvest occurs at the beginning of each week. When this occurs: - If there is only one Rice Plan with the most Signatures, that Rice Plan is Harvested. - If there is more than one Rice Plan with the most Signatures, the one that was created earliest is Harvested. - In all other cases, nothing happens. And then all Rice Plans are destroyed and the Harvest ends. Rice Plans consist of two lists of players, with each list having no repeated players, and the lists can be empty. One of these lists is its Rice Up list, and the other is its Rice Down list. When a Rice Plan is Harvested, for each player listed in its Rice Up list, if that player is active, e gains 1 Rice; and for each player listed in its Rice Down list, if e has at least 1 Rice then e lose 1 Rice. If after a Harvest there is a single active player with at least 2 Rice and more Rice than any other player, then that player wins the game, and all Rice is destroyed. When the game has been won in this manner three times, this rule repeals itself. Rule 2519/2 (Power=3) Consent A person is deemed to have consented to an action if and only if, at the time the action took place: 1. e, acting as emself, has publicly stated that e agrees to the action and not subsequently publicly withdrawn eir statement; 2. e is party to a contract whose body explicitly and unambiguously indicates eir consent; 3. the action is taken as part of a promise which e created; or 4. it is reasonably clear from context that e wanted the action to take place or assented to it taking place. Rule 2125/13 (Power=3) Regulated Actions An action is regulated if: (1) the Rules limit, allow, enable, or permit its performance; (2) the Rules describe the circumstances under which the action would succeed or fail; or (3) the action would, as part of its effect, modify information for which some player is required to be a recordkeepor. A Regulated Action CAN only be performed as described by the Rules, and only using the methods explicitly specified in the Rules for performing the given action. The Rules SHALL NOT be interpreted so as to proscribe unregulated actions. The controversy, specifically, is whether a player can consent to a non-action. Specifically "A Rice Plan has an active player's Signature as long as that player is consenting to it." Let's break down the statement: "A Rice Plan has an active player's Signature as long as that player is consenting to it." What is "it" in this situation? Is "it" an action or non-action? This can be read a few ways: the first way is that "it" is "that Rice Plan." This would result in a weird case where a player consents to a non-action (an asset). In real life, we do not consent to non-actions, so I'm thinking that this is unreasonable to assume. The second way is that "it" is "that Rice Plan having that player's Signature." This makes more sense: an asset obtaining a property is an action. Being reasonable Agorans, I find that this reading is more appropriate. This also makes sense in the context of the rules: rule 2519 provides a definition for consent we can apply to this situation. Now, it is sufficient to determine whether "that Rice Plan having that player's Signature" is an action or not. I'd say that it is a regulated action, fitting all three criteria for regulated actions: the rules have said how it occurs, whether it succeeds, and it affects gamestate the Ricemastor must track. Finally, given the context of the controversy, and the CFJ itself, I have to determine all the other factors that contribute to whether players have rice. Given the context of the controversy as the reason to call the CFJ, I find it sufficient to say that the ricemastor has taken appropriate precautions otherwise to determine the amounts of rice players have: the creation of rice plans, and tracking the consent of rice plans as per rule 2519, harvests, and eir most recent report shows that players have rice. So without further evidence or controversy, I trust the officer to have done eir job. Conclusion: Consenting to non-actions is unregulated, and may or may not have happened, and this is IRRELEVANT. However, players have consented (either additionally or otherwise) to "rice plans having eir signature," which itself is an action. Specifically, consent must continue to meet the definition of rule 2519 for the current version of rule 2682. THUS, I judge the CFJ to be TRUE. -- 4st Referee & Deputy (AKA FAKE) Herald Uncertified Bad Idea Generator
