> On Aug 24, 2026, at 10:14 AM, Gregory Hayes via agora-official > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Murphy wrote: > >> On or about Wed, 8 Jul 2026 05:04:00 -0500, snail > planted Radishes. > > I temporarily deputize for the Arbitor to designate this as CFJ 4158 and > assign it to Galle. > > Original CFJ and Caller's Arguments: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg49324.html > > I enter a judgement of FALSE on CFJ 4158. Judge's Arguments: > === > This case turns on the following attempted conditional action by snail: > >> If this week's weather is 95 or lower, 16 times, I plant Radishes by paying >> a fee of 162 pyrite. > > As the caller argues, "this week's weather" is ambiguous - it could refer > either to the value of the Weather switch at the time snail attempted the > action, or it could refer to the Weather selected for that week by the Land > Managor, which had not yet been selected and was therefore indeterminate. > > Two points move this judge in favor of the latter interpretation. First, > "this week's weather" clearly presupposes that there is a conspicuous, unique > weather value associated with each week. The only reasonable candidates for > such are the weather selected that week and the weather at the end of the > week (when the weather causes game effects), and these are under normal > circumstances the same value. > > Second, strategic analysis suggests that snail intended to make eir action > dependent on the week's selected weather. Radishes have 95 Resilience - if > snail planted Radishes and then a higher Weather was selected, e would lose > those Radishes at the end of the week. The current Weather value has no such > strategic implications. > > For these reasons, this judge believes that "this week's weather" refers to > the weather selected that week. However, even if it did not, that merely > makes the referent ambiguous. In either case, the conditional action failed, > either because the antecedent was indeterminate or because it was ambiguous. > === > > I currently qualify for a blue ribbon, cyan ribbon, white ribbon, an > ultraviolet ribbon, and platinum ribbon. Having already been awarded a > platinum ribbon, I hereby award myself a transparent ribbon, a white ribbon, > and an ultraviolet ribbon. > > - Galle, Speaker and Champion
...goddamnit. I temporarily deputize for the Arbitor AGAIN to assign the above quoted CFJ the number 4160, as 4158 is not a unique number. - Galle, Speaker and Champion
