On 9/3/24 8:28 AM, Mischief via agora-discussion wrote:
Proto-proposal: "Frank Voting" AI=2
Here's a revised proto. I think it's pretty close to being ready to go,
but given the potential impact I wanted to proceed cautiously.
"Frank Voting" AI=2 (coauthors=kiako, Kate)
[The new model in a nutshell: Offices -> Complexity -> Stamps -> Power
Grabs -> Voting Strength
Voting Strength is still in the 3-6 range, and there is a universal
basic income for Stamps. Uncommon Stamps are more valuable for Power Grabs.
The Assessor tracks Station as a new duty, but it only changes at month
end and e no longer worries about Complexity. The Collector tracks
fulfilled Power Grabs, but e mostly would anyway due to the fees.
It's intentional that a Power Grab of zero stamps can potentially enter
the oligarchy, which gives players an incentive to make them. Having
those Power Grabs in the mix makes it harder to guess in advance what
the winning bid levels will be.
Also, players can reveal/pay early -- they do not need to wait until the
third week. They give out the information early, but if they know they
won't be around they have that flexibility. Also, it's worth a reminder
that a Plaintext can be its own Fingerprint, so if you're going to
reveal a Power Grab right away you needn't bother with a hash function.
Change log:
2024-09-07
split "Climbing the Social Ladder" into two rules
incorporates Kate's suggestions for R2681 (Acting on Commitment)
a player cannot make a Power Grab if e already fulfilled one
Collector now breaks ties randomly (timing no longer matters)
Collector reports on both pending and fulfilled Power Grabs
penalty for not fulfilling a pending Power Grab: Buffoon
explicitly disallowed conditional descriptions within Power Grabs
wording tweaks
2024-09-03
initial proto-proposal draft]
Create a rule titled "The Oligarchy" with power 2 reading:
Station is a secured player switch with values High Oligarch,
Middle Oligarch, Low Oligarch, Commoner (default), and Buffoon.
Station is tracked by the Assessor in eir monthly report.
A player's voting strength for referenda on ordinary proposals
is:
a) 6 if eir Station is High Oligarch
b) 5 if eir Station is Middle Oligarch
c) 4 if eir Station is Low Oligarch
d) 3 if eir Station is Commoner
e) 2 if eir Station is Buffoon
Set all Station switches to Commoner.
Create a rule titled "Jockeying for Status" with power 2 reading:
At all times a Power Grab is in exactly one of the following
categories: pending, fulfilled, terminated. At the beginning of
each month, all Power Grabs become terminated.
In the first two Eastman weeks of each month, a player may make a
Power Grab by making a commitment to an unambiguous,
unconditional description of zero or more Stamps, specifying both
their types and quantities. When e does so, that Power Grab
becomes pending. However, e may not do so if e already has a
pending or fulfilled Power Grab.
In the first two Eastman weeks of each month, a player may cause
a specified pending Power Grab e made to become terminated (syn.
"terminate" that Power Grab) by announcement.
A pending Power Grab becomes fulfilled if, before the end of the
third Eastman week of the month in which it was made, the player
who made it: 1) reveals the commitment e made when making the
Power Grab; and 2) pays a fee equal to all the Stamps specified
in the Power Grab's revealed Plaintext; however, if a Power Grab
specifies zero Stamps this fee is automatically considered paid.
Create a rule titled "Power Grabs" with power 2 reading:
The Influence of a type of Stamp equals the rational number
3/(N+2), where N is the total quantity of that Stamp specified in
all fulfilled Power Grabs. The Influence of a fulfilled Power
Grab is the sum of its constituent Stamps. For clarity, if a
Power Grab includes a particular type of Stamp T times, then
collectively the contribution of those Stamps to the Power Grab's
Influence is T times the Influence of a single such Stamp. Also,
a fulfilled Power Grab of zero stamps has zero Influence.
The stronger of two fulfilled Power Grabs is the one with greater
Influence, with ties broken randomly by the Collector.
The Collector's monthly report consists of pending and fulfilled
Power Grabs. For fulfilled Power Grabs, eir report also includes
their Influence, and they SHOULD be listed in descending order of
strength. E SHOULD publish this report in the fourth or fifth
Eastman week each month.
At the end of each month, the following occur in order (where P
is the number of fulfilled Power Grabs and floor(x) denotes the
greatest integer less than or equal to x):
1. Set the Station of all players to Commoner
2. For each of the strongest floor(6*P/12) fulfilled Power
Grabs, the Station of the player who made it is set to Low
Oligarch
3. For each of the strongest floor(3*P/12) fulfilled Power
Grabs, the Station of the player who made it is set to
Middle Oligarch
4. For each of the strongest floor(P/12) fulfilled Power
Grabs, the Station of the player who made it is set to High
Oligarch
5. Set the Station of any player who has a pending Power Grab
to Buffoon
Amend rule 2632 (Complexity) by replacing:
For each office a player holds, eir voting strength is increased
by the complexity of the office for referenda on ordinary
proposals, up to a maximum increase of 3 by this method.
with:
The ADoP CAN, and in the first Eastman week of each month SHALL,
Issue Payroll by, for each office, listing all players (if any)
who held that office for a continuous period of at least 14 days
in the previous Agoran month. When e does so, each player is
granted a number of eir Stamps equal to:
a) one if e was Active at the beginning of the month, zero
otherwise; plus
b) the total Complexity of all offices e is listed for when
the ADoP Issued Payroll (zero if e is not listed for any
office)
Amend rule 2681 (Acting on Commitment) by replacing:
Where the rules define an action that a person CAN perform "by
commitment" to a particular kind of document, that person performs
that action by performing it by announcement while, in the same
message, also publishing a what is purportedly a Fingerprint for a
document of that kind.
with:
A person CAN make a commitment to a particular kind of document
by publishing a statement that purports to be a Fingerprint for a
document of that kind. If the statement is in fact such a
Fingerprint, the person CAN then reveal the commitment by
publishing the Plaintext corresponding to that Fingerprint.
--
Mischief
Collector
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