I favor this case. -Aris
On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 12:53 AM Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > > > On Nov 9, 2017, at 3:50 AM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > > > > As authorized by the contract "Easy Off Scam: Cleaning Your Mold Fast", > I cause the Head, V.J Rada, to pay Agora 1 > > > […] > > I call for judgement, paying Agora 1 sh. to do so and barring V.J Rada, on > the statement "V.J Rada owns the Estate of Erehwon". > > Caller's Arguments: > > Exhibit 1 contains 1,011 payments to Agora of 1 sh. apiece, substantially > made by V.J Rada and identified as being payments for the purchase of the > Estate. V.J Rada was authorized to purchase that Estate, as exhibit 2 > shows, e had recently won an auction. > > Shinies are fungible (see exhibits 3 and 4): any two collections of > shinies with the same number of shinies in them and the same owner are > fully interchangeable, and are in fact indistinguishable from one another, > as we lack the means to identify any single shiny with any certainty. > Similarly, dividing a payment into multiple smaller payments is neither > permitted nor proscribed by the rules, and after receiving 1,011 shinies, > Agora is exactly as enriched if those shinies come in a single payment, or > in multiple payments. > > Conversely, however, the 1,011 payments in exhibit 1 are evidently not > _atomic_. They are, by necessity, interleaved with other actions involving > the same parties (V.J Rada and Agora). If we are to treat all 1,011 > payments as a unit, in what order does that payment occur with respect to > the 1,011 payments Agora makes in that message? > > Exhibit 5 is the only relevant CFJ I'm aware of. I judged it, and I stand > by it. > > Exhibits: > > 1. < > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2017-November/037043.html > > > 2. < > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2017-November/012032.html > > > 3. Rule 2483 ("Economics"): > > Shinies (singular "shiny", abbreviated "sh.") are an indestructible > liquid currency, and the official currency of Agora. The Treasuror is the > recordkeepor for shinies. > > 4. Rule 2166 ("Assets"), in part: > > A currency is a class of asset defined as such by its backing > document. Instances of a currency with the same owner are fungible. > > 5. <https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?3552> > >
