Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-31 Thread Edward Murphy via agora-discussion
G. wrote: On 5/25/2020 12:41 PM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: I wanted to send along a small snippet of the economy thesis I'm working on to get feedback. My main questions are 1) What kind of information does everyone want for each economic system and Your two examples are an

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: 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

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

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-25 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Monday, May 25, 2020 4:24:56 PM CDT Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > Your two examples are an interesting contrast in that they are probably > the "longest between resets" and "shortest between resets" systems, but > you don't get a sense of that from your descriptions - so maybe a >

Re: DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-25 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/25/2020 12:41 PM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > I wanted to send along a small snippet of the economy thesis I'm working on > to > get feedback. My main questions are > > 1) What kind of information does everyone want for each economic system and Your two examples are an interesting

DIS: Thesis Snippet

2020-05-25 Thread nch via agora-discussion
I wanted to send along a small snippet of the economy thesis I'm working on to get feedback. My main questions are 1) What kind of information does everyone want for each economic system and 2) are the flowcharts good? Any other feedback also appreciated. Anyway, here it is: {