Re: DIS: [Proto] Promises

2020-05-19 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> > Might be better to make that consent conditional on the promise being > > cashed? I can't think of a plausible situation in which it could > > matter, but here's a contrived situation. Suppose I create a promise > > saying I become a candidate for the election for some office. That > > might co

Re: DIS: [Proto] Promises

2020-05-18 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Thank you for your comments! > I wonder if this rule text could be a contract. Anyone can join, and > anyone who's not the creator of a promise can leave. I thought about that. It would definitely need a helper amendment (for the acting on behalf thing, which I'm going to need to add anyway), but

Re: DIS: [Proto] Promises

2020-05-18 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
I wonder if this rule text could be a contract. Anyone can join, and anyone who's not the creator of a promise can leave. > Promises are a class of assets, tracked by the Notary. Their essential > attributes are their title, text, and creator. A person CAN, by > announcement, > create a pro

Re: DIS: [Proto] Promises

2020-05-17 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/17/20 3:04 AM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > A promise's bearer CAN, by announcement, cash the promise, > provided that any conditions for cashing it specified by its text are > unambiguously met and provided that e recites the promise's essential > attributes in the same

DIS: [Proto] Promises

2020-05-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
This represents a reenactment of an old game system, with new text. I mentioned that I was considering something like this a while ago. The original is from [1], but I didn't go back and look at it until I'd almost finished mine (that was when I decided to add the Library and the fungibility clause