Re: DIS: Re: [Pledge] Re: BUS: Proposal Bribery

2020-05-26 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 4:32 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 5/25/2020 8:14 PM, nch via agora-business wrote: > > On Monday, May 25, 2020 10:08:54 PM CDT Rebecca via agora-business wrote: > >> I create the following proposal (we need these

DIS: Re: BUS: (attn Promotor) Re: [Contest: Rule Golf] Re: Agora willing

2020-05-26 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
Publius wrote: > WILL: The person CAN once by announcing and SHALL within a week do so. I agree that "by announcing" isn't a replacement for the "by announcement" term of art. Murphy wrote: > WILL: CAN and SHALL by announcement. For my contest, I don't think it "clearly captures the

DIS: [Reportor] Last Week in Agora

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
Archived at https://github.com/AgoraNomic/Reportor/tree/master/weekly_summaries Report for the week of 2020-05-18..24: # Summary Welcome, Bögtil, and welcome back, grok! Well, it turns out auctions are still broken. Will we ever get them right? G. proposes to just let the auctioneer figure

Re: DIS: [Research Request] Thoughts on Technical Domains of Control

2020-05-26 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/26/2020 5:14 PM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: >> Obviously, answering all of these questions is a lot of work and the >> goal of my thesis, but if anything quickly comes to mind, I'd >> appreciate any contributions. One thing just occurred to me. I've never seen this option

Re: DIS: [Research Request] Thoughts on Technical Domains of Control

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> Obviously, answering all of these questions is a lot of work and the > goal of my thesis, but if anything quickly comes to mind, I'd > appreciate any contributions. Blockchains are an elaborate solution to the problem of agreeing on a set of public events and in what order they happened. This

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/26/2020 4:47 PM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > Misrepresentation is a risk but c'est la vie. I think there's even > some risk of that in my current weekly summaries. > My favorite stories are when it ends up totally different from whatever my perception of events was.

Re: DIS: [Research Request] Thoughts on Technical Domains of Control

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 22:27, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > I'm currently starting on a thesis about technical domains of control. > I'm planning to build on my judgement in CFJ 3642 and incorporate an > even more thorough review of the literature and, if I can,

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> I'm aware of all these arguments and at one point would have endorsed them. > However I've generally over time come to the conclusion that idiosyncrasy, > which expresses culture and identity, has as much (or more) value as > standardization does. Thus, I'm not inclined to change the way I

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> "Broader problems" and "what was fun" are actually really difficult to tackle. > Both would require diving into a-d much more, which is a very high-traffic > list, > and trying to interpret people's contemporary feelings. It's both more work > and risks misrepresenting people. Understood.

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:29:26 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 23:18, nch via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:10:25 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > > One nitpick: I'm not sure how to read the last two dates. I

DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8388-8404

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> // > ID: 3399 > Title: E had two months! Wrong ID here. I don't know whether that stopped it from being distributed. - Falsifian

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:16:45 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > 1) What kind of information does everyone want for each economic system > > and > > Off the top of my head: > * the basic mechanisms (yes, flow charts are helpful) Noted > * rule bugs and broader problems with

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 23:18, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:10:25 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > One nitpick: I'm not sure how to read the last two dates. I can infer > > it's not day/month/year but not sure if there are year-month-day > >

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:10:25 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > One nitpick: I'm not sure how to read the last two dates. I can infer > it's not day/month/year but not sure if there are year-month-day > conventions that use slashes. They are in MM/DD/YY format, which is common in

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> 1) What kind of information does everyone want for each economic system and Off the top of my head: * the basic mechanisms (yes, flow charts are helpful) * rule bugs and broader problems with the economies, so we can learn from the past * what was fun or otherwise good about them (G.'s note

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> === > Summarized Timeline > === > 2000Stems begins [1] > 04/24/03 Stems Ends, Tabla Rasa Begins due to Proposal 4486 [2] > 12/05/16 Shinies Begins I like reading about Agoran history, so thanks for this work. One nitpick: I'm not sure how to read the

DIS: Re: [Pledge] Re: BUS: Proposal Bribery

2020-05-26 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/25/2020 8:14 PM, nch via agora-business wrote: > On Monday, May 25, 2020 10:08:54 PM CDT Rebecca via agora-business wrote: >> I create the following proposal (we need these sometimes, 4fun) >> >> Title: Voltaire, Lottery Scammer In terms of "fun", last couple times we did some actual

DIS: Re: BUS: [Dragon] Application of Shorter Voting Periods

2020-05-26 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/26/20 12:12 PM, James Cook via agora-business wrote: > Thanks, the text looks correct. Does R2202 actually let you ratify > "that the Dragon Corporation contract has the following text", though? > I'm not sure if that phrase counts as a ratifiable document. > > I intend, without objection, to

Re: DIS: [Proto] College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

2020-05-26 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 20:07, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion wrote: > On 2020-05-24 23:46, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 9:50 PM Reuben Staley via agora-discussion > > wrote: > >> On 2020-05-24 15:44, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > >>>

Re: DIS: Draft Proposal: External Opinions

2020-05-26 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 9:28 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On 5/25/2020 6:06 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > Reenact Rule 1365, "External Opinions" at power-1.7 with the following text: > > A player CAN submit an External Concurring or Dissenting opinion >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: TWG fingered

2020-05-26 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 7:31 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:58 PM Rebecca via agora-business > wrote: > > > > Oh cool (although I cant log into or see anything in that archive, I > trust > > you) > > > > In that case I point my finger

DIS: Re: BUS: TWG fingered

2020-05-26 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:58 PM Rebecca via agora-business wrote: > > Oh cool (although I cant log into or see anything in that archive, I trust > you) > > In that case I point my finger at myself for Faking (saying that e didn't > cause CB to win the game when e did) > I also point my finger