Re: DIS: Ratification via closed timelike curves (was [proposal] Contract party fixes)

2019-07-30 Thread James Cook
Okay, first, practical matters: * Given your position on the matter, Aris, I don't plan to push for this change any time soon. * I'm still keen to try out the power-0.5 mini game. I have at least one correction which I'll post separately. I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Now, less-practi

Re: DIS: Ratification via closed timelike curves (was [proposal] Contract party fixes)

2019-07-30 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 8:19 AM James Cook wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 06:57, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > First off, I’m very happy you published this. It’s very interesting and it > > adds a lot to the discourse. I will now proceed to state why I think it’s a > > bad idea. (Upon retreading

Re: DIS: Ratification via closed timelike curves (was [proposal] Contract party fixes)

2019-07-30 Thread James Cook
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 06:57, Aris Merchant wrote: > First off, I’m very happy you published this. It’s very interesting and it > adds a lot to the discourse. I will now proceed to state why I think it’s a > bad idea. (Upon retreading your post, these amount to explanations of why > concerns c and

Re: DIS: Ratification via closed timelike curves (was [proposal] Contract party fixes)

2019-07-29 Thread Aris Merchant
First off, I’m very happy you published this. It’s very interesting and it adds a lot to the discourse. I will now proceed to state why I think it’s a bad idea. (Upon retreading your post, these amount to explanations of why concerns c and a are perhaps more serious than you think.) You haven’t ac

Re: DIS: Ratification via closed timelike curves (was [proposal] Contract party fixes)

2019-07-29 Thread Aris Merchant
(P.S Sorry everyone for top-posting.) -Aris On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 11:51 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > First off, I’m very happy you published this. It’s very interesting and it > adds a lot to the discourse. I will now proceed to state why I think it’s a > bad

DIS: Ratification via closed timelike curves (was [proposal] Contract party fixes)

2019-07-28 Thread James Cook
Two responses inline... On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 at 20:20, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On 7/28/2019 1:03 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > That may be a reasonable point; I know that tends to be a weakness in > > my proposals, although I tried pretty hard not to do it in that one. > > Still, I'm not sure I see a