On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Quazie wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Quazie wrote: >>> Proposal 'Another bribe?' AI=2 ii=1 >> >> Been done before. Boring. >> >> -zefram >> > I was just surprised to find that Bribing wasn't illegal, thats all, > so I decided to see what would happen.
Well it's classic Nomic prisoners dilemma etc., but I disagree that it's boring, any more than playing Werewolf (that's been played many times before) is boring. In other words, haven't done it for a while so bring it on. By the way, why would "bribing" in proposals be illegal? We're not modeling "free democracy" here, if anything we're modeling a legislature where Points, VPs, etc. are surrogates for actual power and influence; legislative power-trading and deals are a necessary part of a functioning legislature. And since it's a model and not the real thing, we can explicitly "model" dilemmas for fun, why not? On the other hand, we *are* trying to model a "fair" judicial system, so bribery for judges is a different (i.e. more frowned-upon) matter. -Goethe
