DIS: Re: BUS: Mad Engineer weekly random rule selection

2022-03-21 Thread ais523 via agora-discussion
On Tue, 2022-03-22 at 01:12 +0100, nethack4.org dicebot via agora-
business wrote:
> Assignment of dice rolls to rules:
> 106:R2579; 107:R2581; 108:R2582; 109:R2585; 110:R2603; 111:R2605;
[I added a special case in the randomization program so that it would
know that R2602 isn't a rule, even though it appears in the online
FLR.]

> The dice roll was: 50
> This is R2162, Switches.

For reference:
{{{
   A type of switch is a property that the rules define as a switch,
   and specify the following:
  
   1. The type(s) of entity possessing an instance of that switch. No
  other entity possesses an instance of that switch.
  
   2. One or more possible values for instances of that switch,
  exactly one of which should be designated as the default. No
  values other than those listed are possible for instances of
  that switch, except that, if no default is otherwise
  specified, then rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the
  "null" value is a possible value for that switch, and is the
  default.
   
   3. Optionally, exactly one office whose holder tracks instances of
  that switch. That officer's (weekly, if not specified
  otherwise) report includes the value of each instance of that
  switch whose value is not its default value; a public document
  purporting to be this portion of that officer's report is
  self-ratifying, and implies that other instances are at their
  default value.
   
   At any given time, each instance of a switch has exactly one
   possible value for that type of switch. If an instance of a switch
   comes to have a value, it ceases to have any other value. If an
   instance of a switch would otherwise fail to have a possible
   value, it comes to have its default value. A Rule that designates
   a switch as "secured" (at a given power level) designates changes
   to the properties of that type of switch as secured (at that power
   level) and designates changes to the value of each instance of the
   switch as secured (at that power level).
   
   "To flip an instance of a switch" is to make it come to have a
   given value. "To become X" (where X is a possible value of
   exactly one of the subject's switches) is to flip that switch to
   X.
   
   If a type of switch is not explicitly designated as
   possibly-indeterminate by the rule that defines it, and if an
   action or set of actions would cause the value of an instance of
   that type of switch to become indeterminate, that instance instead
   takes on its last determinate and possible value, if any,
   otherwise it takes on its default value.
   
   A singleton switch is a switch for which Agora Nomic is the only
   entity possessing an instance of that switch.
   
   A boolean switch is a switch with values True and False. A
   positive boolean switch has a default of True; a negative boolean
   switch has a default of False.
   
   Attempting to flip an instance of a switch to a value it already
   has does not flip the switch. However, if a person is REQUIRED to
   flip a switch instance to a value it already has, then either
   attempting to do so using the required mechanism, or announcing
   that the switch already has the required value, fulfills the
   requirement without flipping the switch.
}}}

Lots of sentences to choose from this week! Any suggestions?

-- 
ais523
Mad Engineer



DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Notary] The Notes (contracts, pledges, & promises)

2022-03-21 Thread Madrid via agora-discussion
i want to object, but i wont, on the basis that i hope you tip me a little
bit of money or something of value in exchange for it. extra points if the
tip is interesting in some way.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 4:30 AM ais523 via agora-business <
agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 21:48 -0500, secretsnail9 via agora-official wrote:
> > 
> > "Buying bbgs badly" created by ais523
> > Bearer: ATMunn
> > Text:
> >
> > Cashing conditions: In the same message as cashing, the bearer has
> > transferred me six blot-be-gones, and it is 14 or 15 March 2022.
> >
> > I transfer 20 Decipoints, 2 pendants, and 3 votives to the bearer.
> > 
>
> CoE: This promise can't be owned by ATMunn, because ownership of
> Promises is restricted to Agora, players, contracts, the Library, and
> the Lost and Found Department (rules 2576, 2618), and ATMunn does not
> fall into any of those categories.
>
> I suspect the promise in question is actually owned by the Lost and
> Found Department. It will never be possible to cash and thus all it's
> doing is cluttering up the Notary's report.
>
> As such, I intend, without objection, to destroy it (using the
> mechanism in rule 2576).
>
> The "outbidding" promise is in a similar situation, but if the Notary
> wants to declutter eir report of that one, e can destroy it by
> announcement because e owns it (rule 2577).
>
> --
> ais523
>
>