DIS: Re: OFF: IADoP - Letting you know Who's Who in Agora

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
quazie wrote: his is a mostly complete report from the IADoP. Because we have more than enough CFJs as it is, you should probably state explicitly that you're publishing the report on behalf of IADoP Human Point Two. While I'm at it, I state under penalty of perjury that the membership of the

DIS: Re: BUS: Hmmm.....

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
BobTHJ wrote: This should stir the pot a bit... I'm doing this just to see what happens. On behalf of the Pineapple Partnership I take the following action: The Pineapple Partnership deregisters On behalf of Second System Effect I take the following action: Second System Effect deregisters

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Hmmm.....

2007-05-17 Thread Zefram
quazie wrote: >We have no proof. No more than you have proof that Goethe and I actually made the agreement that constructed the Pineapple Partnership. Historically this kind of situation has not been an impediment to judges finding the truth. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: Hmmm.....

2007-05-17 Thread quazie
Zefram wrote: Roger Hicks wrote: On behalf of the Pineapple Partnership I take the following action: The Pineapple Partnership deregisters BobTHJ is not granted the capacity to perform this action by any agreement regulating the Pineapple Partnership. -zefram We h

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: >Which is why allowing e.g. a Power=1 rule to temporarily trump a >Power=3 rule would require >= 3/4 support on a case-by-case basis. You'd also allow a Power=2 rule to trump a Power=3 rule with a 60% supermajority, where currently a 75% supermajority would be required. Pretty big

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Taral
On 5/17/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm envisioning writing the entire ruleset in a formal denotational semantics language and automated theorem proving in the pi calculus... we're not going to get there easily. That was kind of the idea behind schemenomic -- perhaps having an (author

DIS: Proto: Quorum fix

2007-05-17 Thread Taral
I plan to propose this if/when NFV II passes: Proto-Proposal: Quorum fix Add the following paragraph to the end of Rule 879 (Quorum): Voters whose voting limit is less than one are not considered eligible for the purposes of this rule. (Easier than adding a new term or hacking the ex

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: e) A player may, with Agoran consent with a consent index of H/L, perform an action and cause a rule with Power L to take precedence over a rule with Power H with regard to that action. E must be otherwise permitted to perform that ac

DIS: Re: BUS: Win by Paradox?

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
comex wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 7:09 pm, Ed Murphy wrote: Second-System Effect registers. I call for judgement on the following statement: Second-System Effect registered on or about Sun, 13 May 2007 16:09:28 -0700 Arguments: Without knowledge of the agreement that defines SSE, this act

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Kerim Aydin
here's the first one, the more political one. The second one (later sometime) is more mathematical. Proto: On all our houses Repeal 1688, 1482, and 1030. [Note: order of things must be considered for this bootstrapping] Enact the following Rule, entitled "All our houses" House is a stuc

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: >The answer is, only if we create a rule with higher precedence. Not true. That paragraph doesn't prevent repeal of the rule at all. Also, if you want to change the precedence mechanism without repealing R1482, all you have to do is amend R1482 to delete that paragraph. >that

DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Kerim Aydin
Curse you, Maud. Now I am thinking of it. I shouldn't be. I've got two proto-proto entirely new systems lined up. HOWEVER: Is it possible to repeal R1482 with its silly "protective" clause: No change to the Ruleset can occur that would cause a Rule to stipulate any other means of

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: > e) A player may, with Agoran consent with a consent index of > H/L, perform an action and cause a rule with Power L to take > precedence over a rule with Power H with regard to that > action. E must be otherwise permitted to perform that action, >

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Roger Hicks
You could always re-institute the Virus... BobTHJ On 5/17/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maud wrote: > I hereby place a bounty of one magic cookie and a (virtual) pat on the > back to the first person to write a good proto or proposal which would > repeal rules 1688, 1482, and 1030.

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: I hereby place a bounty of one magic cookie and a (virtual) pat on the back to the first person to write a good proto or proposal which would repeal rules 1688, 1482, and 1030. Goodness of protos and proposals will be evaluated relative to my biases, of course. This only achieves

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Zefram
Michael Slone wrote: >I don't intend that supermajority voting vanish. So we'll still need a mutability index, or something equivalent, you just don't want it tied to precedence. There's a basic problem with this. Consider the whole class of systems where precedence is a partial ordering among r

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Proto: Reintroduce indices

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/17/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's a bug in the proto. You specify AI=2 but then don't actually use it. I presume you intend for the rule to be enacted with power=2. No, I intended for it to be enacted with power 1. I chose AI=2 so that it would be democratic. On the othe

DIS: Proto: Clarify actions

2007-05-17 Thread Kerim Aydin
Maud wrote: > Those rights which > are enumerated in the rules or recognized by the Agoran courts > may not be abridged, reduced, limited, or removed by Agoran law, > and any provision of an otherwise binding agreement which would > do so is unenforceable. Not to do wit

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/17/07, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you intend there to be no precedence mechanism at all? And what about supermajority voting? I don't intend that supermajority voting vanish. As for precedence, there is almost certainly a nice system out there that we haven't tried, since we've

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Proto: Reintroduce indices

2007-05-17 Thread Zefram
I wrote: >I'm up for it. Why are you not? Because you deregistered, of course. I have a terrible memory for humans. -zefram

Re: DIS: personhood

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
On 5/10/07, Michael Slone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I no longer wish to discuss anything at all with you. Okay, I'm done with the above pointless nonsense. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) Don't you mean I say I don't, therefore I don't, I say I do, therefore I don't, or I don't say I do, the

Re: DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Zefram
Michael Slone wrote: >repeal rules 1688, 1482, and 1030. Do you intend there to be no precedence mechanism at all? And what about supermajority voting? -zefram

Re: DIS: Proto: Clarify actions

2007-05-17 Thread Zefram
Michael Slone wrote: >Here is a revised version of "Clarify actions". I like this, especially what you do with R101. Please propose it. -zefram

DIS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 4970-4975

2007-05-17 Thread quazie
{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{ Proposal 4972 (Democratic, AI=3) by Goddess Eris No free votes II Change rule 1950 (Voting Limits) to read: The voting limit of an eligible voter on a democratic proposal is one and cannot be changed except by this rule. The

DIS: Bounty

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
I hereby place a bounty of one magic cookie and a (virtual) pat on the back to the first person to write a good proto or proposal which would repeal rules 1688, 1482, and 1030. Goodness of protos and proposals will be evaluated relative to my biases, of course. -- C. Maud Image (Michael Slone) O

DIS: Proto: Reintroduce indices

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
This is a legislative solution to a problem which has already been solved judicially. But this will remind us. If someone is willing to propose this, please feel free to do so. -- Protoproposal h0137 (AI=2) Reintroduce indices Enact a rule, titled "Indices", reading: Indices are

DIS: Proto: Clarify actions

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Slone
Here is a revised version of "Clarify actions". It changes which rights are guaranteed by rule 101 slightly, eliminating one which in my opinion is a direct consequence of the others, and adding the right to propose changes to the game. In this proto I'm trying to introduce a bit of regulation f

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: HPn votes

2007-05-17 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: On behalf of Human Point Two: On behalf of Human Point Four: HP2 isn't a partner in HP4, is it? It purports to be, at least. From the announcement in which HP4 was allegedly registered: "Human Point Two, Human Point Three, and I have made a R1742 binding ag

DIS: Re: BUS: HPn votes

2007-05-17 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: >On behalf of Human Point Two: > On behalf of Human Point Four: HP2 isn't a partner in HP4, is it? -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 4970-4975

2007-05-17 Thread Zefram
quazie wrote: >If Murphy has voted on a proposal as of 5/16/07 @ 9:50pm (PST), Murphy has voted on many proposals. E's been playing the game for a long time. >I vote in the same manner as e has. Ah, but do you vote the same way as em too? Anyway, this conditional vote and reference to someone