Hello Quazie! It's been a while. Good to hear from you and I hope
things are going well.

-Aris

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:46 PM Quazie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This does seem to make it harder to make my cat a person
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 18:38 Aris Merchant 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I float the following protos. These are intended to enable cleaner,
>> simpler personhood determinations by relying on our intuitive
>> definitions of what constitutes a person. They should maintain
>> reasonable standards, such as keeping GPT and corporate persons out,
>> while being slightly more inclusive overall. In particular, I believe
>> that CFJ 3877 would no longer necessarily hold under these new rules,
>> which I consider a good thing.
>>
>> These two protos are intended to be alternative ways of accomplishing
>> the same thing; I will submit one, depending on popularity and my own
>> feelings after discussion. nix has suggested allowing corporate
>> personhood, but only if none of the individuals involved want to play
>> independently. This seems both safe and like a simple next step.
>> Depending on discussion, that may be incorporated with one of these or
>> submitted as a standalone proposal. I haven't really thought about how
>> to integrate it with these yet though.
>>
>> -Aris
>>
>> ---
>> Title: Everyone is a Person
>> Adoption index: 3.0
>> Author: Aris
>> Co-authors: nix, G., Jason, ATMunn
>>
>>
>> Amend Rule 869, "How to Join and Leave Agora", by replacing:
>>
>>   Any entity that is or ever was an organism generally capable of
>>   freely originating and communicating independent thoughts and
>>   ideas is a person. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, no other
>>   entities are persons.
>>
>> with:
>>
>>   Everyone who can understand this sentence is a person. Someone who
>>   used to be able to understand the sentence is also still considered
>>   a person. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, no other entities are
>>   persons.
>>
>> ---
>> Title: Natural Personhood
>> Adoption index: 3.0
>> Author: Aris
>> Co-authors: nix, G., Jason, ATMunn
>>
>> Amend Rule 869, "How to Join and Leave Agora", by replacing:
>>
>>   Any entity that is or ever was an organism generally capable of
>>   freely originating and communicating independent thoughts and
>>   ideas is a person. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, no other
>>   entities are persons.
>>
>> with:
>>   Every natural person is an Agoran person (or simply person). A former
>>   natural person is also still considered an Agoran person. Rules to the
>>   contrary notwithstanding, no other entities are Agoran persons.
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