DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Michael

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 11:29 PM, Chuck Carroll wrote: I invoke judgement on the following statement: The assignment of Walker as Judge for the statement The selection of a Judge for this statement is a move whose legality cannot be determined with finality is a move whose legality cannot be determined

DIS: Agora XX: Chicken??

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
Okay, so there's a proposal pending (345) which, if it passes, means that if a proposal fails, the proposer forfeits. And suddenly there are no proposals for me to distribute! Hey, if you're not in the lead, and the rules don't change, you're going to lose the game anyway. (And maybe Chuck

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Michael

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
It'll be interesting if Michael rules that this statement is FALSE, on the ground that the selection of a Judge for the earlier statement (and by extension, his own selection as Judge) can be shown to be illegal. On 27 June 2013 21:11, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/06/2013 11:29 PM,

DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
Good day Agorans, A correction from last report brought to my attention by Yally. It does involve the disputed interpretation of the order of events when the voting on multiple proposals closes simultaneously. I am going with the interpretation that they pass sequentially in order I

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
On 27 June 2013 22:38, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: If I receive any proposals promptly, I will distribute. H. Speaker, I submit the following Proposals, separated by '==='. === Amend Rule 207 to read: Voters may vote either for or against any proposal within its prescribed voting

DIS: Re: Agora XX: Scavenger addition

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Some comments on this set of proposals: 1. I believe each one refers to a well-defined set of entities, for which I have straightforward links (out of my control) that should provide enough evidence to determine the answers. I will publish the list right after the results of voting on these.

Re: DIS: Re: Agora XX: Scavenger addition

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
Bravo, Goethe! Agora XX is wildly exceeding my expectations for it! Steve On 27 June 2013 23:25, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: Some comments on this set of proposals: 1. I believe each one refers to a well-defined set of entities, for which I have straightforward links (out

Re: DIS: Re: Agora XX: Scavenger addition

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: 4. Mini-contest: If I am able (i.e. I am not knocked out of the game), I will give half my points resulting from these proposals to the first person to privately send me a complete list of the entities referred to in these proposals. If no one gets

Re: DIS: Agora XX: proposals 348-362

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Ah, and I vote FOR all of 348-362 (on mine for 'fairness' sake :) ). -Goethe

Re: DIS: Agora XX: proposals 348-362

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
Some notes of my own on proposals 348-352: On 27 June 2013 23:28, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: 348 (Steve): Amend Rule 207 to read: Voters may vote either for or against any proposal within its prescribed voting period. Only messages which clearly and explicitly

DIS: XX: Agora Infinity

2013-06-27 Thread omd
[Note which I request the Speaker to include: At this point the best strategy to win is obviously to avoid controversial proposals, and I suspect this might make me lose, but I like this idea enough that I'm proposing it anyway. Basically, after a winner is determined on the anniversary, allow

DIS: Agora XX: Attn Speaker: Please re-check votes on 344!

2013-06-27 Thread games_na
Proposal 344 (Yally) passes 5:3 with ehird, Steve, Michael, Yally, and Chuck FOR; Walker, Goethe, and omd AGAINST. This amends rule 343. It basically restores this poor rule to the original winning condition (most points), and adds a clause to resume the game next year. Yally gets 10 points

Re: DIS: Agora XX: Attn Speaker: Please re-check votes on 344!

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
Given that Charles Walker did vote FOR, it doesn't matter if Chuck did vote AGAINST. On 28 June 2013 00:00, Steven Gardner steven.gard...@monash.edu wrote: Charles Walker voted FOR and his vote is not recorded; Speaker Fool may have confused the two 'Charles's. I've no record of Chuck voting

Re: DIS: Agora XX: Attn Speaker: Please re-check votes on 344!

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
Charles Walker voted FOR and his vote is not recorded; Speaker Fool may have confused the two 'Charles's. I've no record of Chuck voting on this proposal publically, but e may of course have done so privately. On 27 June 2013 23:48, games...@chuckcarroll.org wrote: Proposal 344 (Yally) passes

Re: DIS: Agora XX: Attn Speaker: Please re-check votes on 344!

2013-06-27 Thread games_na
Per my usual custom, I voted via private email to the Speaker (and my votes were correctly recorded for 342-343 and 345-347). Fool's report does have Walker listed as voting against, so if he just switched my vote with Walker's, that doesn't affect passage of the proposal, but does affect points.

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to omd

2013-06-27 Thread omd
On Thursday, June 27, 2013, Fool wrote: CFJ: a player who forfeits the game can still vote and/or transfer points. In most games, after a player loses or forfeits, e is no longer considered a player and can no longer make any type of move, and Rule 113 concurs with this in contrasting

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3337 judged FALSE by G.

2013-06-27 Thread Jonathan Rouillard
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Elliott Hird penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com wrote: On 24 June 2013 12:58, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: Arguments: I would say any number of wrappers would work. I define f(n) to be I attempt to announce {{{, followed by f(n+1), followed by }}}, whenever n

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
CFJ: Blob has forfeited. The rule in question (345) states: If a player proposes a rule change which is not adopted at the end of its voting period, that player must immediately forfeit the game. Note that the wording is a requirement placed on the player to act, not an automatic

Re: DIS: XX: Agora Infinity

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, omd wrote: The cycle length is initially 24 hours. On 30 June 2013, 00:00:00 +1200, and thereafter once the cycle length has passed since the last reduction, the cycle length is reduced to half of its previous value. On 31 June 2013, 00:00:00 +1200, the game ends. If

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: CFJ: Blob has forfeited. The rule in question (345) states: If a player proposes a rule change which is not adopted at the end of its voting period, that player must immediately forfeit the game. Note that the wording is a

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3343: Time Limit Reached

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: I recuse G. from CFJ 3343. Oh, right. Agora. I was just like: how could there be that many CFJs in XX? Really sorry! proto (True Agora, not XX!) proposal: The period of 14 days that ends upon the first day to end after Agora's

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3343: Time Limit Reached

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Walker
On 27 Jun 2013, at 18:22, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: I recuse G. from CFJ 3343. Oh, right. Agora. I was just like: how could there be that many CFJs in XX? Really sorry! proto (True Agora, not XX!) proposal: The

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3343: Time Limit Reached

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Charles Walker wrote: On 27 Jun 2013, at 18:22, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: I recuse G. from CFJ 3343. Oh, right. Agora. I was just like: how could there be that many CFJs in XX? Really sorry!

Re: DIS: Agora XX: proposal

2013-06-27 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 26 June 2013 05:33, Malcolm Ryan malco...@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: Let's make this interesting. I propose that a rule be enacted reading: If a player proposes a rule change which is not adopted at the end of its voting period, that player must immediately forfeit the game. M I register

Re: DIS: Agora XX: proposal

2013-06-27 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 27 June 2013 23:23, Jonatan Kilhamn jonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 June 2013 05:33, Malcolm Ryan malco...@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: Let's make this interesting. I propose that a rule be enacted reading: If a player proposes a rule change which is not adopted at the end of its

DIS: Agora XX: votes

2013-06-27 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
I vote FOR proposal 359. -Tiger

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Walker

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Walker
On 27 June 2013 02:10, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/06/2013 10:09 AM, games...@chuckcarroll.org wrote: I invoke judgement on the following statement: The selection of a Judge for this statement is a move whose legality cannot be determined with finality. By rule 331, I must

DIS: Agora XX CORRECTION: Proposal 344 failed.

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
Argh ** Yes, Chuck did privately vote against 344. And no, Walker did vote against, he changed his public for to a private against about 9 hours later. So it's actually 4:4, fail, we're back to rule 343. Yally did not get 10 points for proposing 344. Walker, Goethe, and omd did not

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to FSX

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
Goethe: CFJ: Blob has forfeited. 331 makes me assign it randomly to me or one of the people who voted on the last proposal, excluding the caller. The last proposal was 347, on which 9 players voted. Goethe was one of them. So was Blob. (hmm) I'll go ahead and roll a virtual 8-sided die

Re: DIS: Agora XX: proposal

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 5:24 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: On 27 June 2013 23:23, Jonatan Kilhamnjonatan.kilh...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 June 2013 05:33, Malcolm Ryanmalco...@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: Let's make this interesting. I propose that a rule be enacted reading: If a player proposes a rule change

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3351 assigned to G. Have fun with this one. =P

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 2:22 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: The emphasis is: A JUDGEMENT HAS NO FORCE TO ACTUALLY COMPEL A RESULT. Unless it comes up UNDECIDABLE. Then you win!

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Malcolm Ryan
I call for judgement on the following statement. Blob does not have to forfeit under rule 345. Reasoning: Rule 345 says If a player proposes a rule change that is not adopted... I made proposal 346 BEFORE this rule came into effect. Rule 108 forbids retroactive application. Blob On

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Malcolm Ryan
I call for judgment on the following statement: At the 12:16am GMT on June 28 2013, Blob had not forfeited. Reasoning: The rules make it clear that forfeiting is a voluntary player action. Rule 345 says a player must forfeit. It does not say that they are deemed to have forfeited. Blob On

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Malcolm Ryan
Oh, Goethe has already CFJ'ed this. Oops. Blob (on the lam) On 28/06/2013, at 10:19 AM, Malcolm Ryan wrote: I call for judgment on the following statement: At the 12:16am GMT on June 28 2013, Blob had not forfeited. Reasoning: The rules make it clear that forfeiting is a voluntary player

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 8:19 PM, Malcolm Ryan wrote: I call for judgment on the following statement: At the 12:16am GMT on June 28 2013, Blob had not forfeited. Reasoning: The rules make it clear that forfeiting is a voluntary player action. Rule 345 says a player must forfeit. It does not say that

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 8:15 PM, Malcolm Ryan wrote: I call for judgement on the following statement. Blob does not have to forfeit under rule 345. Reasoning: Rule 345 says If a player proposes a rule change that is not adopted... I made proposal 346 BEFORE this rule came into effect. Rule 108 forbids

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
The argument (setting aside the retroactivity claim) is that Blob was immediately required to forfeit. Not doing so would to be sure be violation of the Rules, but it still can't happen unless Blob sends a message say that e forfeits. On 28 June 2013 10:32, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
On 28 June 2013 10:36, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: In this case, the effect was your forfeiture (or requirement to forfeit). It was based on events that occurred prior, but the effect was not retroactive. I disagree. R345 describes a sequence of actions that lead to forfeiture. To avoid

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 8:43 PM, Steven Gardner wrote: On 28 June 2013 10:36, Fool fool1...@gmail.com mailto:fool1...@gmail.com wrote: In this case, the effect was your forfeiture (or requirement to forfeit). It was based on events that occurred prior, but the effect was not retroactive. I

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3351 assigned to G. Have fun with this one. =P

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: On 27/06/2013 2:22 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: The emphasis is: A JUDGEMENT HAS NO FORCE TO ACTUALLY COMPEL A RESULT. Unless it comes up UNDECIDABLE. Then you win! Well, we've defined undecidable as an officially resolved result, so that's cool. :)

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 8:37 PM, Steven Gardner wrote: The argument (setting aside the retroactivity claim) is that Blob was immediately required to forfeit. Not doing so would to be sure be violation of the Rules, but it still can't happen unless Blob sends a message say that e forfeits. Okay, for the

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Michael

2013-06-27 Thread Michael Norrish
I the matter of the CFJ of Chuck's that I have been assigned to judge, I return a verdict of FALSE. Obviously, this agrees with Charles Walker’s recent judgement, but I also think he slightly misinterpreted the relevant rule, while simultaneously making perfectly reasonable decisions about our

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
I'd say e remains a player with full rights to continue to play up until the moment e forfeits. On 28 June 2013 10:50, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/06/2013 8:37 PM, Steven Gardner wrote: The argument (setting aside the retroactivity claim) is that Blob was immediately required to

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: On 27/06/2013 8:37 PM, Steven Gardner wrote: The argument (setting aside the retroactivity claim) is that Blob was immediately required to forfeit. Not doing so would to be sure be violation of the Rules, but it still can't happen unless Blob sends a

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 8:55 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: Of course, this raises the age old question of whether, if e does an illegal thing, whether it actually fails (since we haven't differentiated IMPOSSIBLE from ILLEGAL here at all...) Okay, for the sake of argument: then that also applies to all

DIS: Agora XX: Last call for proposals, perhaps.

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
omd's Agora Infinity is the only proposal so far for the next round. And unless that proposal passes, next round is the last one. Even if it does pass, next round is the last round at this ridiculous speed. The rounds after that go to ludicruous speed... (What's the matter Colonel Sanders?

Re: DIS: XX: Agora Infinity

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 9:45 AM, omd wrote: The cycle length is initially 24 hours. On 30 June 2013, 00:00:00 +1200, and thereafter once the cycle length has passed since the last reduction, the cycle length is reduced to half of its previous value. On 31 June 2013, 00:00:00 +1200, the game ends. Maybe

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Malcolm Ryan
Aand we return to the old Platonic vs Pragmatic debate. Blob (staying low) On 28/06/2013, at 11:06 AM, Fool wrote: On 27/06/2013 8:55 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: Of course, this raises the age old question of whether, if e does an illegal thing, whether it actually fails (since we haven't

Re: DIS: Agora XX CORRECTION: Proposal 344 failed.

2013-06-27 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: Argh ** Yes, Chuck did privately vote against 344. And no, Walker did vote against, he changed his public for to a private against about 9 hours later. So it's actually 4:4, fail, we're back to rule 343. Yally did not

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: On 27/06/2013 8:55 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: Of course, this raises the age old question of whether, if e does an illegal thing, whether it actually fails (since we haven't differentiated IMPOSSIBLE from ILLEGAL here at all...) Okay, for the sake of

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Fri, 28 Jun 2013, Malcolm Ryan wrote: Aand we return to the old Platonic vs Pragmatic debate. that has plagued Agora for a looong time... Oh, and remind me next year to come up with a Drinking Game for observers. 1. Drink if platonic

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013, Malcolm Ryan wrote: Aand we return to the old Platonic vs Pragmatic debate. that has plagued Agora for a looong time...

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to omd

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 9:38 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: I call for judgement on the statement a player can change eir vote. My 8-sided virtual die comes up omd You have 24 hours. -Dan Nothing in the rules support the notion that this is possible, or allow for removing of votes. Instead, the rules

Re: DIS: Agora XX CORRECTION: Proposal 344 failed.

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 9:38 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: I call for judgement on the statement a player can change eir vote. Nothing in the rules support the notion that this is possible, or allow for removing of votes. Instead, the rules claim each player gets a single vote. Walker's initial vote should

Re: DIS: Agora XX CORRECTION: Proposal 344 failed.

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
Nothing in the Rules, perhaps, except for the provision in R217 which states that game custom is one of two standards to be applied before others where the rules are unclear. On 28 June 2013 11:38, Aaron Goldfein aarongoldf...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Fool

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to FSX

2013-06-27 Thread Flameshadowxeroshin
Rule 113, while implying that forfeiture usually is a choice, does not appear to indicate that a person may not be forced to do it. The only thing it seems to imply is that you cannot prevent a person from doing it. Therefore, if a person is forced to forfeit, they have forfeited, and I judge this

DIS: Ambassador Abuse

2013-06-27 Thread Sgeo
1. This is the ruleset of a nomic called Ambassador Abuse 2. There are two languages used by Ambassador Abuse: Ambabusese and English. 3. All communications to Ambassador Abuse are in Ambabusese, but the rules themselves are in English, 4. All communications on Agora's public fora are considered

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Malcolm Ryan
Yes, this is definitely a problem with the return to the original rules idea. The original rules had a lot of bugs. If this just means revisiting those bugs every year, I'm not keen. Blob On 28/06/2013, at 11:47 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Fri, 28

Re: DIS: Ambassador Abuse

2013-06-27 Thread Sgeo
A communication to Ambassador Abuse: I change rule 6 to read If rule 5 does not specify the meaning of a communication that is in Ambabusese, then the meaning of the Ambabusese is equivalent to the English meaning of ROT13 applied to the communication, as long as that does not mean a denial or

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
It would be an interesting project to design a terse and elegant, non-buggy set of initial Rules suitable playing blitz nomic on a mailing list. On 28 June 2013 13:37, Malcolm Ryan malco...@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: Yes, this is definitely a problem with the return to the original rules idea. The

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Steven Gardner steven.gard...@monash.edu wrote: It would be an interesting project to design a terse and elegant, non-buggy set of initial Rules suitable playing blitz nomic on a mailing list. Or we could just squash all the bugs and continue where we left off

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
On 28 June 2013 14:18, Aaron Goldfein aarongoldf...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Steven Gardner steven.gard...@monash.edu wrote: It would be an interesting project to design a terse and elegant, non-buggy set of initial Rules suitable playing blitz nomic on a mailing

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013, Steven Gardner wrote: What I'd be looking for is a ruleset which fixes bugs likes changing rule numbers, defines simultaneity, incorporates some lessons about pragmatism in a minimally committal way and generally leaves the rest open for players to explore politics

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
I just came across my old Thesis, which I'd completely forgotten about, The concept of a 'rule change' in Peter Suber's Initial Set. Like everyone else, we seem to have assumed that the claim labelled (*) in the Thesis is false. It's be interesting to design an initial set which clears up the