Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Proto-judgements of CFJs 3722-3725

2019-03-17 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Sun, 2019-03-17 at 13:15 -0700, Edward Murphy wrote:
> twg wrote:
> 
> > Notice of Honour:
> > -1 D. Margaux (holding up an important ruleset fix with eir attempt
> > at a win)
> > +1 Murphy (inadvertently(?) preventing a paradox)
> 
> What did /I/ do?

You wrote a report which broke up the paradox when it self-ratified,
and nobody noticed at the time.

-- 
ais523



Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Proto-judgements of CFJs 3722-3725

2019-03-17 Thread Edward Murphy

twg wrote:


Notice of Honour:
-1 D. Margaux (holding up an important ruleset fix with eir attempt at a win)
+1 Murphy (inadvertently(?) preventing a paradox)


What did /I/ do?



Re: DIS: Proto-judgements of CFJs 3722-3725

2019-03-09 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Yes, that is in fact exactly what I argue in the judgement to CFJ 3724. :P

I expect D. Margaux meant something like "its outcome, _if resolved now_, would 
be ADOPTED". I imagine e would have resubmitted it with that wording, after 
realising that the initial wording was wrong, if it hadn't become apparent that 
the error in the ADoP report completely ruled out eir Win by Paradox anyway.

-twg


‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Saturday, March 9, 2019 3:36 PM, James Cook  wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 05:30, Ørjan Johansen oer...@nvg.ntnu.no wrote:
>
> > It was not published, twg is simply referring jokingly to emself, as e is
> > the Assessor.
>
> Oh, that makes sense. But I'm confused by D. Margaux's CFJ that 8164's
> outcome is ADOPTED, if there was no message attempting to resolve the
> decision.
>
> Is "outcome" a well-defined property of a decision before it's
> resolved? Rule 955 specifies some rules about computing the outcome,
> and we could try to apply those rules before it's resolved to compute
> a provisional "outcome" (even if the voting period hasn't ended, based
> on the ballots cast so far). But Rule 955 also says "The outcome of a
> decision is determined when it is resolved", which seems to imply that
> the outcome is not determined before it's resolved. If that's true,
> Proposal 8164's outcome could not have been ADOPTED, for the simple
> reason that nobody had attempted to resolve the decision and so the
> outcome must have been undetermined at that point.




Re: DIS: Proto-judgements of CFJs 3722-3725

2019-03-09 Thread James Cook
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 05:30, Ørjan Johansen  wrote:
> It was not published, twg is simply referring jokingly to emself, as e is
> the Assessor.

Oh, that makes sense. But I'm confused by D. Margaux's CFJ that 8164's
outcome is ADOPTED, if there was no message attempting to resolve the
decision.

Is "outcome" a well-defined property of a decision before it's
resolved? Rule 955 specifies some rules about computing the outcome,
and we could try to apply those rules before it's resolved to compute
a provisional "outcome" (even if the voting period hasn't ended, based
on the ballots cast so far). But Rule 955 also says "The outcome of a
decision is determined when it is resolved", which seems to imply that
the outcome is not determined before it's resolved. If that's true,
Proposal 8164's outcome could not have been ADOPTED, for the simple
reason that nobody had attempted to resolve the decision and so the
outcome must have been undetermined at that point.


Re: DIS: Proto-judgements of CFJs 3722-3725

2019-03-08 Thread Ørjan Johansen
It was not published, twg is simply referring jokingly to emself, as e is 
the Assessor.


Greetings,
Ørjan.

On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, James Cook wrote:


twg's message says the H. Assessor publish the below tally, but I
didn't receive any emails containing it, and I can't find it in the
public archives. When was that email sent, and to which list?

I don't think it has any bearing on the CFJs. I'm just trying to
figure out if I'm missing emails.

   ++-+
   |AI  | 3.1 |
   |Quorum  |  5  |
   ++-+
   |Corona Z 7b.|  F  |
   |D. MargauxPM| |
   |G.  | FFF |
   |Falsifian   | FFF |
   |L. Z 1b.|+FFF |
   |twg  4b.| FF  |
   ++-+
   |FOR | 16  |
   |AGAINST |  0  |
   |Ballots |  6  |
   |Resolved|ADOP.|
   ++-+

   Key:
   #b. Possesses # blots [-floor(#/3) voting strength]
   PM  Prime Minister [+1 voting strength]
   Z   Zombie
   +   Extricated conditional

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 02:30, Timon Walshe-Grey  wrote:


Attached as individual text files. Please have a look and let me know what you 
think...

-twg




Re: DIS: Proto-judgements of CFJs 3722-3725

2019-03-08 Thread James Cook
twg's message says the H. Assessor publish the below tally, but I
didn't receive any emails containing it, and I can't find it in the
public archives. When was that email sent, and to which list?

I don't think it has any bearing on the CFJs. I'm just trying to
figure out if I'm missing emails.

++-+
|AI  | 3.1 |
|Quorum  |  5  |
++-+
|Corona Z 7b.|  F  |
|D. MargauxPM| |
|G.  | FFF |
|Falsifian   | FFF |
|L. Z 1b.|+FFF |
|twg  4b.| FF  |
++-+
|FOR | 16  |
|AGAINST |  0  |
|Ballots |  6  |
|Resolved|ADOP.|
++-+

Key:
#b. Possesses # blots [-floor(#/3) voting strength]
PM  Prime Minister [+1 voting strength]
Z   Zombie
+   Extricated conditional

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 02:30, Timon Walshe-Grey  wrote:
>
> Attached as individual text files. Please have a look and let me know what 
> you think...
>
> -twg


Re: DIS: Proto-judgements of CFJs 3722-3725

2019-03-08 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
On Friday, March 8, 2019 2:50 AM, Kerim Aydin  wrote:
> You don't have to worry about the Disclaimer in the ADoP's report -
> disclaimers are used all the time to ratify false things, under the guidance
> of R2202 you're supposed to use disclaimers when reporting false things
> for the purpose of ratification, and this explicitly does not stop
> ratification.

Yeah, I agree, and the disclaimer is disclaiming something else anyway. I just 
thought I should mention it, since it seems like the sort of thing someone 
might try to use to cast doubt on the judgement. :P

> Proposal 8164 will not undo the self-ratification. It will retroactively
> determine that the ADoP's Report was wrong in a different way, but the
> report will have still have self-ratified as it was written.

Yes, exactly. So the SPOOKY distribution failed either way, and there is no 
paradox (and will not be even when P8164 is adopted normally).

-twg


Re: DIS: Proto-judgements of CFJs 3722-3725

2019-03-07 Thread D. Margaux
Well that is a very, very annoying oversight on my part. Nice catch.

> On Mar 7, 2019, at 9:50 PM, Kerim Aydin  wrote:
> 
> 
> I was just writing a note to say I'd spotted the Feb 24th ADoP report's
> ratification of D. Margaux as Prime Minister as well!
> 
> You don't have to worry about the Disclaimer in the ADoP's report -
> disclaimers are used all the time to ratify false things, under the guidance
> of R2202 you're *supposed* to use disclaimers when reporting false things
> for the purpose of ratification, and this explicitly does not stop
> ratification.
> 
> Proposal 8164 will not undo the self-ratification.  It will retroactively
> determine that the ADoP's Report was wrong in a different way, but the
> report will have still have self-ratified as it was written.
> 
> 
>> On 3/7/2019 6:30 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote:
>> Attached as individual text files. Please have a look and let me know what 
>> you think...
>> -twg


Re: DIS: Proto-judgements of CFJs 3722-3725

2019-03-07 Thread Kerim Aydin



I was just writing a note to say I'd spotted the Feb 24th ADoP report's
ratification of D. Margaux as Prime Minister as well!

You don't have to worry about the Disclaimer in the ADoP's report -
disclaimers are used all the time to ratify false things, under the guidance
of R2202 you're *supposed* to use disclaimers when reporting false things
for the purpose of ratification, and this explicitly does not stop
ratification.

Proposal 8164 will not undo the self-ratification.  It will retroactively
determine that the ADoP's Report was wrong in a different way, but the
report will have still have self-ratified as it was written.


On 3/7/2019 6:30 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote:

Attached as individual text files. Please have a look and let me know what you 
think...

-twg



DIS: Proto-judgements of CFJs 3722-3725

2019-03-07 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Attached as individual text files. Please have a look and let me know what you 
think...

-twg
===  CFJ 3724  ===

  An Agoran Decision whether to adopt Proposal 8164 was
  initiated and its outcome is ADOPTED.

--

This CFJ is the third of three that comprise an attempt by D. Margaux to
Win by Paradox, the other two being CFJ 3722 and CFJ 3723. This third CFJ
is extremely straightforward to resolve. Rule 955/26, "Determining the
Will of Agora", states that:

The outcome of a decision is determined when it is resolved, and
cannot change thereafter.

No Agoran decision about whether to adopt Proposal 8164 has been resolved,
so although two have been initiated, neither of their outcomes can
possibly have been determined, whether ADOPTED or otherwise.

I judge CFJ 3724 FALSE.

==
===  CFJ 3725  ===

  Aris’s attempt to distribute Proposal 8164 in the message
  below was EFFECTIVE.

--

As discussed in the judgement to CFJ 3723, a ratification event on
2019-03-03 changed the gamestate to whatever it would have been had
Proposal 8164 not been distributed on 2019-02-28. This, of course,
includes the presence of Proposal 8164 in the Proposal Pool.

As Proposal 8164 was in the Proposal Pool at the time the H. Promotor
attempted to distribute it on 2019-03-07, this attempt was EFFECTIVE.

I judge CFJ 3725 TRUE.

==
===  CFJ 3723  ===

  The Assessor currently CAN and MAY resolve an Agoran Decision
  whether to adopt Proposal 8164 to be ADOPTED.

--

This CFJ is the second of three that comprise an attempt by D. Margaux to
Win by Paradox, the other two being CFJ 3722 and CFJ 3724. As background
information, Agora is currently experiencing a minor crisis: new player
Falsifian discovered on 2019-02-14 that Rule 2124/23, "Agoran
Satisfaction", contains text that has unintended effects, with the result
that:

Agora is not Satisfied with an intent to perform an action unless it
is to be performed With Notice or With T Notice. In particular,
Gaelan's recent attempt to Declare Apathy on February 7, 2019 was
ineffective, and D. Margaux's dependent actions in their recent
message that starts 'I thought for sure people would object...' were
ineffective.

This interpretation was confirmed by the H. Judge Trigon in CFJ 3712. As a
result, it is now known that all attempts to perform dependent actions
other than With Notice or With T Notice since the erroneous text was
introduced in Proposal 7815 on 2016-10-28 were INEFFECTIVE.

Proposal 8164 seeks to solve the problem retroactively:

The gamestate, excluding the rules, is changed to what it would have
been if the text of the following amendment to Rule 2124 had
determined whether Agora was Satisfied with any intents attempted
after Proposal 7815, rather than the text of what Rule 2124 was at
that time. To the extent allowed by the rules, this change is
designated as a convergence.

Rule 2124 is amended [such that it works as intended.]

Unfortunately, it has transpired that the method by which Proposal 8164
was distributed relies upon the failure of dependent actions. D. Margaux
asserts that this means Proposal 8164, upon taking effect, changes the
gamestate to whatever the gamestate would be had it not taken effect,
creating a paradox.



In CFJ 3722, we established that on 2019-02-28, then-Prime Minister ATMunn
issued a Cabinet Order of Manifesto, distributing Proposal 8164 and
initiating an Agoran decision about whether to adopt it. The voting period
for Agoran decisions is currently 7 days, as specified by Rule 107/20, and
indeed during the 7 days following the distribution of Proposal 8164,
several players attempted to vote on the decision.

The H. Assessor recorded these attempted votes as they were announced,
producing a preliminary tally of votes as follows:

++-+
|AI  | 3.1 |
|Quorum  |  5  |
++-+
|Corona Z 7b.|  F  |
|D. MargauxPM| |
|G.  | FFF |
|Falsifian   | FFF |
|L. Z 1b.|+FFF |
|twg  4b.| FF  |
++-+
|FOR | 16  |
|AGAINST |  0  |
|Ballots |  6  |
|Resolved|ADOP.|
++-+

Key:
#b. Possesses # blots [-floor(#/3) voting strength]
PM  Prime Minister [+1 voting strength]
Z   Zombie
+   Extricated