Re: DIS: [draft] procedural ratification

2020-01-08 Thread Ørjan Johansen via agora-discussion
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: By including "purposeful", it covers scams; e.g. with Jason Cobb's 18,000 coins - the scammer would have at least the 4 day objection period to enjoy eir earnings or convert it to a win[*] or whatever. [*]since winning and patent

Re: DIS: [draft] procedural ratification

2020-01-08 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
Like the idea. Few thoughts: If I create the contact {Gaelan SHALL publish a Tailor’s report weekly}, does this let me issue memoranda about ribbons? Also, this may be a minority view, but I believe scams are part of the game, and we shouldn’t make a habit of reverting them by default. Of

DIS: [draft] procedural ratification

2020-01-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
Proto: the Reset Button #include memorandum Create the following Rule entitled "the Reset Button": If the rules define a public document as self-ratifying, then a person REQUIRED to publish that document CAN ratify that document without 3 objections, provided e includes, as

Re: DIS: [Draft] Administrative Adjudication v2

2020-01-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 1/8/2020 8:01 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote:    which shall consist in a public document and shall, once issued,    resolve bindingly, by interpretation of law and fact, such matters within Mulling it over more, what exactly do you mean by "interpreting facts"? In the current context of the

Re: DIS: [Draft] Administrative Adjudication v2

2020-01-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 1/8/2020 6:40 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: Each officer has the power to, with notice, issue a memorandum, Do you think "has the power to" is a reasonable synonym for CAN - it's kind of an overloaded word that we don't use that way currently (and "CAN" is simplier than

Re: DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:28 PM Ørjan Johansen via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > >>> 1. e, acting as emself, has publicly stated, and not subsequently > >>> publicly withdrawn eir statement, that e agrees to the action; > >>

DIS: [Draft] Administrative Adjudication v2

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
I made several changes, including clarifying that the judiciary has judicial review over memoranda. I also decided to go in the direction of making memoranda purely interpretative, because I have other plans for gamestate changes that have more safeguards. I've allowed them to be like CFJs or

Re: DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Ørjan Johansen via agora-discussion
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: 1. e, acting as emself, has publicly stated, and not subsequently publicly withdrawn eir statement, that e agrees to the action; That last comma looks out of place. Looks right to me, based on my intuitive comma placement

DIS: Contract Patency v3

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Gaelan's comments made me think of a way to tear out pacts completely. It's a bit less backwards compatible, but also vastly simplified. -Aris --- Title: Contract Patency v3 Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: Gaelan, Jason Cobb, Falsifian Amend Rule 2519, "Consent", to read in full:

Re: DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:16 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion wrote: > > First of all, I haven’t looked through all of the original thread, so let me > know if something’s already been discussed to death. I’m aware that I’m > suggesting some big changes late in the game, and I’m not *that*

Re: DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
First of all, I haven’t looked through all of the original thread, so let me know if something’s already been discussed to death. I’m aware that I’m suggesting some big changes late in the game, and I’m not *that* unhappy with the proposal as it stands, so I would probably vote FOR even as it

Re: DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 2:42 PM AIS523--- via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 14:31 -0800, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > wrote: > > I think this addresses everyone's concerns. Comments are welcome. > [snip] > > Amend Rule 2519, "Consent", to read in full: > > A person is

Re: DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 1/8/20 5:42 PM, AIS523--- via agora-discussion wrote: > I have an automatic uneasy reaction to anything that inherently needs > to be able to platonically evaluate arbitrary conditions that can be > specified without going through a proposal process or the like, > especially if there are no

Re: DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread AIS523--- via agora-discussion
On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 14:31 -0800, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > I think this addresses everyone's concerns. Comments are welcome. [snip] > Amend Rule 2519, "Consent", to read in full: > A person is deemed to have consented to an action if and only if: > > 1. e, acting as

DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
I think this addresses everyone's concerns. Comments are welcome. -Aris --- Title: Contract Patency v2 Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: Jason Cobb, Falsifian Amend Rule 2519, "Consent", to read in full: A person is deemed to have consented to an action if and only if: 1. e,

Re: DIS: Draft: Contract Patency

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 6:35 PM James Cook wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 06:11, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > Here's a draft that separates out contracts from pacts, and creates an > > office of Notary to track contracts and pledges. NOTE: Volunteers are > > needed for Notary! Apply now! > > I

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8277-8279

2020-01-08 Thread Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion
Well, the current contracts rules are very broken. But that's ok! :P On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 16:21, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > TBH, there's no real reason to disallow 1-member contracts. It doesn't > make sense under real world contract law, but

DIS: [MUD] MUD Opening!

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
The MUD is now open. The server is at agora.ddns.net Port 4000 is telnet. Port 4001 is HTTP. Port 4004 is SSH. Port 4005 is webclient-websocket. -Aris

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8277-8279

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
TBH, there's no real reason to disallow 1-member contracts. It doesn't make sense under real world contract law, but Agoran contracts can also function like corporations. -Aris On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:10 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion wrote: > > Yeah, the rules need to handle open-ended

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-08 Thread Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 16:07, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Neither your votes, nor the promotor report, were to the public forum. > > Additionally, I ask that you reconsider your vote on 8281. I don’t have a > force-through scam up my sleeve, and I

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8277-8279

2020-01-08 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
Yeah, the rules need to handle open-ended contracts better IMO. Contracts are written as entities that can gain and lose members at will, but there’s no clear way to bootstrap a contract. Gaelan > On Jan 8, 2020, at 12:34 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-business > wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-08 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
Neither your votes, nor the promotor report, were to the public forum. Additionally, I ask that you reconsider your vote on 8281. I don’t have a force-through scam up my sleeve, and I would like to find out if my scam works. As far as I know, the rule should be fairly harmless. Gaelan > On

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:07 AM Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion wrote: > > Aris wrote: > > A minimalist proto along the lines of #1 follows. This could be a > > complex interconnected set of 15 rules, but I think it would be more > > fun to leave it as minimal as possible at let the

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 14:51, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:59 AM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion > wrote: > > > > I’m intrigued by the idea. I’m a little concerned that it’s TOO > vague—are these rulings CFJ-like (a

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:51 AM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > The idea doesn’t seem immediately bad (although I’m not sure I prefer it > > either) but I think such an important area is not suitable for the “write > > something simple and let CFJs figure it out” strategy. > >

Fwd: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
Oops, this somehow ended up being a reply to just Aris. In the future, please avoid cc’ing me if possible—I have rules configured to dump all Agora messages in a folder, and ccing directly to me breaks that. Begin forwarded message: > From: Gaelan Steele > Date: January 8, 2020 at 11:56:43

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:59 AM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion wrote: > > I’m intrigued by the idea. I’m a little concerned that it’s TOO vague—are > these rulings CFJ-like (a means of agreeing on what happened platonically, > but with no actual platonic effect) or ratification-like? How is

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-08 Thread Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion
On Tue., Jan. 7, 2020, 23:34 Aris Merchant via agora-discussion, < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > 8280 Murphy, Jason Cobb 3.0 Resolve the troubles v1.1 > AGAINST > 8281 Gaelan 1.0 Nothing to see here, Rule 1030 v2 > AGAINST > 8282 Falsifian

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:34 AM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 1/8/20 12:08 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > >> Each officer has the power to, with notice, issue a memorandum, > >> which shall consist in a public document and shall, once issued, > >> have the

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 1/8/20 12:08 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: >> Each officer has the power to, with notice, issue a memorandum, >> which shall consist in a public document and shall, once issued, >> have the power to resolve bindingly any matter within eir official area of >> concern,

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion
Aris wrote: > A minimalist proto along the lines of #1 follows. This could be a > complex interconnected set of 15 rules, but I think it would be more > fun to leave it as minimal as possible at let the judiciary sort out > the details. > > -Aris > -- > Title: Administrative Adjudication >

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
Seems reasonable to me. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 12:09 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:24 PM Aris Merchant > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:12 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jan

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
I’m intrigued by the idea. I’m a little concerned that it’s TOO vague—are these rulings CFJ-like (a means of agreeing on what happened platonically, but with no actual platonic effect) or ratification-like? How is arbitrariness and capriciousness defined/judged? What about “official area of

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:24 PM Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:12 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:00 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > > This gets me thinking of a potential big and maybe-interesting-maybe-not > >