Re: DIS: Re: [Pledge] Re: BUS: Proposal Bribery

2020-05-26 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 4:32 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 5/25/2020 8:14 PM, nch via agora-business wrote: > > On Monday, May 25, 2020 10:08:54 PM CDT Rebecca via agora-business wrote: > >> I create the following proposal (we need these somet

DIS: Re: BUS: (attn Promotor) Re: [Contest: Rule Golf] Re: Agora willing

2020-05-26 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
Publius wrote: > WILL: The person CAN once by announcing and SHALL within a week do so. I agree that "by announcing" isn't a replacement for the "by announcement" term of art. Murphy wrote: > WILL: CAN and SHALL by announcement. For my contest, I don't think it "clearly captures the definitio

DIS: [Reportor] Last Week in Agora

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
Archived at https://github.com/AgoraNomic/Reportor/tree/master/weekly_summaries Report for the week of 2020-05-18..24: # Summary Welcome, Bögtil, and welcome back, grok! Well, it turns out auctions are still broken. Will we ever get them right? G. proposes to just let the auctioneer figure out

Re: DIS: [Research Request] Thoughts on Technical Domains of Control

2020-05-26 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/26/2020 5:14 PM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: >> Obviously, answering all of these questions is a lot of work and the >> goal of my thesis, but if anything quickly comes to mind, I'd >> appreciate any contributions. One thing just occurred to me. I've never seen this option used,

Re: DIS: [Research Request] Thoughts on Technical Domains of Control

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> Obviously, answering all of these questions is a lot of work and the > goal of my thesis, but if anything quickly comes to mind, I'd > appreciate any contributions. Blockchains are an elaborate solution to the problem of agreeing on a set of public events and in what order they happened. This se

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/26/2020 4:47 PM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > Misrepresentation is a risk but c'est la vie. I think there's even > some risk of that in my current weekly summaries. > My favorite stories are when it ends up totally different from whatever my perception of events was.

Re: DIS: [Research Request] Thoughts on Technical Domains of Control

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 22:27, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > I'm currently starting on a thesis about technical domains of control. > I'm planning to build on my judgement in CFJ 3642 and incorporate an > even more thorough review of the literature and, if I can, dra

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> I'm aware of all these arguments and at one point would have endorsed them. > However I've generally over time come to the conclusion that idiosyncrasy, > which expresses culture and identity, has as much (or more) value as > standardization does. Thus, I'm not inclined to change the way I expres

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> "Broader problems" and "what was fun" are actually really difficult to tackle. > Both would require diving into a-d much more, which is a very high-traffic > list, > and trying to interpret people's contemporary feelings. It's both more work > and risks misrepresenting people. Understood. I've

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:29:26 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 23:18, nch via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:10:25 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > > One nitpick: I'm not sure how to read the last two dates. I

DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8388-8404

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> // > ID: 3399 > Title: E had two months! Wrong ID here. I don't know whether that stopped it from being distributed. - Falsifian

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:16:45 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > 1) What kind of information does everyone want for each economic system > > and > > Off the top of my head: > * the basic mechanisms (yes, flow charts are helpful) Noted > * rule bugs and broader problems with the

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 23:18, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:10:25 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > One nitpick: I'm not sure how to read the last two dates. I can infer > > it's not day/month/year but not sure if there are year-month-day > > conventi

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:10:25 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > One nitpick: I'm not sure how to read the last two dates. I can infer > it's not day/month/year but not sure if there are year-month-day > conventions that use slashes. They are in MM/DD/YY format, which is common in

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> 1) What kind of information does everyone want for each economic system and Off the top of my head: * the basic mechanisms (yes, flow charts are helpful) * rule bugs and broader problems with the economies, so we can learn from the past * what was fun or otherwise good about them (G.'s note abou

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> === > Summarized Timeline > === > 2000Stems begins [1] > 04/24/03 Stems Ends, Tabla Rasa Begins due to Proposal 4486 [2] > 12/05/16 Shinies Begins I like reading about Agoran history, so thanks for this work. One nitpick: I'm not sure how to read the last

DIS: Re: [Pledge] Re: BUS: Proposal Bribery

2020-05-26 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/25/2020 8:14 PM, nch via agora-business wrote: > On Monday, May 25, 2020 10:08:54 PM CDT Rebecca via agora-business wrote: >> I create the following proposal (we need these sometimes, 4fun) >> >> Title: Voltaire, Lottery Scammer In terms of "fun", last couple times we did some actual prison

DIS: Re: BUS: [Dragon] Application of Shorter Voting Periods

2020-05-26 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/26/20 12:12 PM, James Cook via agora-business wrote: > Thanks, the text looks correct. Does R2202 actually let you ratify > "that the Dragon Corporation contract has the following text", though? > I'm not sure if that phrase counts as a ratifiable document. > > I intend, without objection, to

Re: DIS: [Proto] College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:07, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion wrote: > On 2020-05-24 23:46, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 9:50 PM Reuben Staley via agora-discussion > > wrote: > >> On 2020-05-24 15:44, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > >>>

Re: DIS: Draft Proposal: External Opinions

2020-05-26 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 9:28 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On 5/25/2020 6:06 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > Reenact Rule 1365, "External Opinions" at power-1.7 with the following text: > > A player CAN submit an External Concurring or Dissenting opinion > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: TWG fingered

2020-05-26 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 7:31 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:58 PM Rebecca via agora-business > wrote: > > > > Oh cool (although I cant log into or see anything in that archive, I > trust > > you) > > > > In that case I point my finger

DIS: Re: BUS: TWG fingered

2020-05-26 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:58 PM Rebecca via agora-business wrote: > > Oh cool (although I cant log into or see anything in that archive, I trust > you) > > In that case I point my finger at myself for Faking (saying that e didn't > cause CB to win the game when e did) > I also point my finger at