Re: DIS: Promise draft

2011-04-02 Thread ais523
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:03 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > [ais523: still consider your role to be primary author if you want > to take it from here. Just such a good idea wanted to help get it out]. I'm happy for you to do the proposing, because a) as far as I can tell it doesn't matter who does

Re: DIS: Promise draft

2011-03-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, omd wrote: > >   Notwithstanding other rules or other provisions of this rule, > >   nested or circular promises, wherin the promise's text purports to > >   create, destroy, or cash another promise, CANNOT be cashed. > > I don't see a reason to ban nested cashing (as oppos

Re: DIS: Promise draft

2011-03-23 Thread omd
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Create a rule (power -2 or -3): > >   A Promise is an asset created as described by this rule. "Promises are a class of assets." >   A Player (the promise's author) CAN create a promise by publishing the >   text of the promise with clear int

DIS: Promise draft

2011-03-23 Thread Kerim Aydin
[ais523: still consider your role to be primary author if you want to take it from here. Just such a good idea wanted to help get it out]. Promises v0.2 [A fleshed-out version of ais523's idea. The Tree is a method of making pledges to all Agorans.] [Note: Does this have to be power-3 to ge