On Feb 10, 2019, at 1:39 PM, D. Margaux <dmargaux...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Feb 9, 2019, at 8:30 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey <m...@timon.red> wrote: >> >> >> I award myself an Indigo Ribbon. >> I CFJ: "I own an Indigo Ribbon." > > This is CFJ 3705. Gratuitous Arguement: Here’s one reason why CFJ 3705 is (I think) FALSE: It relies on twg’s attempt to amend eir contract with G. and to thereby mousetrap everyone (except G.), but such an amendment is prohibited by the prior terms of their contract. The contract provides that twg CAN modify it “by announcement, with the exception that twg CANNOT (and SHALL NOT attempt to) modify this contract such that it imposes any obligation on G. or otherwise significantly harms eir standing in the game, or such that this paragraph is removed, altered or otherwise rendered ineffective.” twg’s attempted amendment violated this paragraph. In particular, twg’s amendment (if successful) would enable em to create arbitrary power 3 rule changes. That would make the G.-protective paragraph “otherwise rendered ineffective” (lower case), because twg could enact a dictatorship and then decree the contract to disappear, or take any number of other actions to make that provision _practically_ ineffective (again, lowercase). Additionally, if e were able to take control of all players other than G., twg would amass such great power that e would necessarily “significantly harm[] [G.’s] standing in the game.” In particular, twg’s power would be such that G. (and all other players) would be subject to twg’s whim. Even if G. were not emself mousetrapped, the mousetrapping of everyone else would harm eir standing significantly as a citizen of Agora. Perhaps twg would use eir power wisely, or even decline to use it at all. But that’s irrelevant. The fact that a malicious twg _could_ use the power to create a dictatorship should make the amendment IMPOSSIBLE, or else the paragraph would give no protection at all to G. All G. could rely on was twg’s goodwill and beneficence, which is exactly what the paragraph is intended to prevent. So, my view is that twg’s attempted contract amendment was INEFFECTIVE.
