Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Forest Sweeney via agora-discussion
To Yachay's points: I've addressed the unreasonable claim that we could reinterpret any rule change ambiguously: we could consider most or all rule changes to be ambiguous, for example in reference to some other "rule 879" or something: and we don't. Why don't we? "reasonability" To Janet's points

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion
* was never added in the first place because it would ossify the game. On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 1:08 AM Yachay Wayllukuq wrote: > Yep, pretty much; although that could also mean that the clause "*Any* > ambiguity in the specification of a rule change causes that change to be > void and without ef

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion
Yep, pretty much; although that could also mean that the clause "*Any* ambiguity in the specification of a rule change causes that change to be void and without effect." was never actually added in the first place, because that's another interpretation that keeps the game playable, just deferring t

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread ais523 via agora-discussion
On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 00:55 +0200, Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion wrote: > Sorry, I meant practical for the purposes of applying  "*Any* ambiguity in > the specification of a rule change causes that change to be void and > without effect." > > Of course, this compromise-based definition of

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion
Sorry, I meant practical for the purposes of applying "*Any* ambiguity in the specification of a rule change causes that change to be void and without effect." Of course, this compromise-based definition of how ambiguous something needs to be in order to be ambiguous for Agora can change and vary

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion
And that's the compromise that Agora assumes for what ambiguity is, and that's fine with me. It's just that, if we take "ambiguity" by a sufficiently strict definition, everything technically ends up having some iota of ambiguity; which isn't very practical for a game. On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:3

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion
My argument can be applied to specific parts of the gamestate too. I'll formulate it in a different way. Be a "Janet Surprise" a moment like recently where we were blindsided by an insightful player who found that we were actually wrong about what we thought a specific part of the gamestate to be,

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread ais523 via agora-discussion
On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 22:04 +0200, Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion wrote: > I'd really just need to prove once that one singular point in the mechanism > is ambiguous, to any degree, to add "any ambiguity". It would help to > define "ambiguous" as "capable of being understood in two or more p

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Janet Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/10/23 16:42, Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion wrote: > I extremely doubt that your perception isn't flawed for Plato's Cave > reasons, but I think you might mean as perception "the information you have > currently recorded through your senses/thought/etc"? I meant perception as > the mech

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion
I extremely doubt that your perception isn't flawed for Plato's Cave reasons, but I think you might mean as perception "the information you have currently recorded through your senses/thought/etc"? I meant perception as the mechanisms by the which you obtain that information, not the information ob

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
One other thing that's totally unspoken in the rules but exists in the common-law of CFJs is that it's acceptable to find "to the preponderance of evidence" for factual questions. This used to be codified - but we repealed that codification for whatever reason. But it was still established enough

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread nix via agora-discussion
On 5/10/23 15:04, Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion wrote: I'd really just need to prove once that one singular point in the mechanism is ambiguous, to any degree, to add "any ambiguity". It would help to define "ambiguous" as "capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or way

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion
I'd really just need to prove once that one singular point in the mechanism is ambiguous, to any degree, to add "any ambiguity". It would help to define "ambiguous" as "capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways". I'll attempt to prove this based on the flaws of our percept

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread nix via agora-discussion
On 5/10/23 14:26, Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion wrote: "Any at all full stop" ambiguity is a whole lot of ambiguity, is my point. It's incredibly easy for anything to gain any iota of ambiguity. But, yes, I believe that we don't interpret it that way, rather, the ambiguity needs to be "re

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion
Sorry, that was probably a bad example. G. has much more eloquently explained what I mean. "Any at all full stop" ambiguity is a whole lot of ambiguity, is my point. It's incredibly easy for anything to gain any iota of ambiguity. But, yes, I believe that we don't interpret it that way, rather, th

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 11:43 AM Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion wrote: > > If I were to interpret the ruleset as strictly as I would like to, I > believe that no rule change whatsoever has happened since the clause "Any > ambiguity in the specification of a rule change causes that change to

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread nix via agora-discussion
On 5/10/23 14:13, Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion wrote: I didn't mean that, but as you can see now, we've just created ambiguity in that I might mean what you believe I do, or not. It's too easy for "any" sort of ambiguity to happen.*Any*. That's not ambiguity in the rule change tho, it's

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion
I didn't mean that, but as you can see now, we've just created ambiguity in that I might mean what you believe I do, or not. It's too easy for "any" sort of ambiguity to happen. *Any*. On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 9:08 PM nix via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/10/23

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread nix via agora-discussion
On 5/10/23 13:42, Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion wrote: If I were to interpret the ruleset as strictly as I would like to, I believe that no rule change whatsoever has happened since the clause "Any ambiguity in the specification of a rule change causes that change to be void and without e

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Yachay Wayllukuq via agora-discussion
If I were to interpret the ruleset as strictly as I would like to, I believe that no rule change whatsoever has happened since the clause "Any ambiguity in the specification of a rule change causes that change to be void and without effect." was added to the game. I feel like the game culture spec

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Janet Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/10/23 13:19, Forest Sweeney via agora-discussion wrote: > Thank you for your copyediting, I know it's not an opinion you want > officialized. > > Hopefully the following draft is more amenable, as I have fully removed all > three offending sections. > > > (Draft ruling) > Summary of Evidence:

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-10 Thread Forest Sweeney via agora-discussion
On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 1:20 PM Janet Cobb via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/8/23 16:08, Forest Sweeney via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 9:53 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-official < > > agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > >> The below CF

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-08 Thread Janet Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/8/23 16:08, Forest Sweeney via agora-discussion wrote: > On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 9:53 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-official < > agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > >> The below CFJ is 4023. I assign it to 4st. >> >> status: https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/#4023 >> >> =

DIS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 4023 Assigned to 4st

2023-05-08 Thread Forest Sweeney via agora-discussion
On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 9:53 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-official < agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > The below CFJ is 4023. I assign it to 4st. > > status: https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/#4023 > > === CFJ 4023 === > >