Re: DIS: Werewolves status update

2008-07-15 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still need 3 more votes on whether to lynch Pavitra. I recommend amending the contract to require votes to be cast as soon as possible, with severe penalties for not doing so. A 2-week voting period is a bit ridiculous.

Re: DIS: Werewolves status update

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still need 3 more votes on whether to lynch Pavitra. I recommend amending the contract to require votes to be cast as soon as possible, with severe penalties for not doing so. A

Re: DIS: Werewolves status update

2008-07-15 Thread Charles Reiss
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still need 3 more votes on whether to lynch Pavitra. I recommend amending the contract to require votes to be cast as soon as possible, with severe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: I currently disagree with the judgement in CFJ 1695, and it was my own judgement. It has since occurred to me that if partnerships could not perform actions via the forum, then they were not players to begin with and therefore had no R101 right to

Re: DIS: Werewolves status update

2008-07-15 Thread Ed Murphy
tusho wrote: 2008/7/15 Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still need 3 more votes on whether to lynch Pavitra. I recommend amending the contract to require votes to be cast as soon as possible, with severe penalties for not

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This makes something occur to me. Once an entity (a partnership) is defined as a person, is it even possible, without violating R101, to make them a non-person? At one stroke, by doing so, we've removed rights that (the instant before the change takes

Re: DIS: Werewolves status update

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Charles Reiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of penalties, I suggest deciding the omitted votes at random after the voting period ends. That'll at least make people's laziness interesting. I'm not fond of this idea. Due to the imbalance of information, votes

Re: DIS: Werewolves status update

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And PUBLIC VOTING, this game sucks. It misses the point entirely. Murphy has already said that e will change it for the next game, so at this point you're just whining needlessly. -root

Re: DIS: Werewolves status update

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Murphy has already said that e will change it for the next game, so at this point you're just whining needlessly. -root I didn't hear that, but OK.

Re: DIS: Werewolves status update

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't hear that, but OK. On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See above. I implemented the contest based on the local F2F games, where everyone votes simultaneously on the count of

Re: DIS: Werewolves status update

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Charles Reiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of penalties, I suggest deciding the omitted votes at random after the voting period ends. That'll at least make people's laziness interesting.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2019a assigned to Wooble, avpx, Taral

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Ben Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 06:09:59 pm Ian Kelly wrote: Seriously? In my experience, Default Justice is a curse, not a bonus. Perhaps we should have some way to abdicate prerogatives; they are theoretically supposed to be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: New FINE Proposal

2008-07-15 Thread Sgeo
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:11 PM, comex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Sgeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: currency's backing document binds the ninny or the ninny has this amount of the currency, and the backing document specifies a Formatting? Does it matter? Is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This makes something occur to me. Once an entity (a partnership) is defined as a person, is it even possible, without violating R101, to make them a non-person? At one stroke, by

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Prerogative implies choice

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I retract my previous similarly-titled proposal. Proposal: Prerogative implies choice (AI = 2, please) Amend Rule 2019 (Prerogatives) by replacing section b) with this text: b) Justiciar. Once within three days

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5636-5639

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
NttPF On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Sgeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NUM FL AI SUBMITTER TITLE 5636 D0 2ais523 Defining Monsterholdors PRESENT 5637 O1 1Quazie Agora is my conditional value FORx4 5638 O1 1.7 Murphy Pragmatize initiation of equity cases

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Prerogative implies choice

2008-07-15 Thread Quazie
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I retract my previous similarly-titled proposal. Proposal: Prerogative implies choice (AI = 2, please) Amend Rule 2019 (Prerogatives) by replacing

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that partnerships aren't people. They are if they're public and have a basis of at least two, which are the only ones that we've decided we want to have interacting with the game (and with good reason). Unless Goethe is right, in which

DIS: Re: ?spam? Re: BUS: Super Fun Happy Hour Ticket

2008-07-15 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 19:34 +0100, ais523 wrote: I fill this ticket, specifying the following action: {{Transfer exactly one of either exactly 2VP or exactly 12VP to the filler of this ticket (i.e. ais523).}} I think this failed because the ticket in question was retracted before I could fill

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: New FINE Proposal

2008-07-15 Thread comex
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Sgeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it matter? Is the formatting actually preserved in the ruleset? If so, I'll need to retract it and repropose or something :/ No, but I personally prefer proposals whose authors have gone to the minimal trouble of formatting

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Quazie
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that partnerships aren't people. They are if they're public and have a basis of at least two, which are the only ones that we've decided we want to have interacting

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: distribution of proposals 5636-5639

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, comex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For one thing, Quazie's EVLOD is 5, right? Assuming we treat this as pseudo-C, the result differs depending on whether myevlod is an int (5/2 = 2; FOR AGAINST FOR AGAINST PRESENT) or a float (5.0/2 = 2.5; FOR AGAINST FOR AGAINST

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PNP Voting

2008-07-15 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 21:23 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: The PerlNomic Partnership wrote: 5590 AGAINST 5591 AGAINST 5593 FOR 5594 FOR 5596 FOR 5597 AGAINST 5598 PRESENT These (and 5589 from the previous method) missed the voting period. I suspect that Wooble caused the PNP to send

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that partnerships aren't people. They are if they're public and have a basis of at least two, which are the only ones that we've decided we want to have interacting

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Quazie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But you can't un-people them without reducing eir rights. So even if its wrong, its something we can't just change. We can make it so that future partnerships are doers, but not people. And a powerful proposal can de-person the existing ones.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ah. I would suggest that, in keeping with legal practice we should instead split persons into natural persons and artificial persons, and have R101 assign rights only to the natural variety. -root Yes. This is essentially what I was suggesting.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Quazie
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that partnerships aren't people. They are if they're public and have a basis of at least two,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread comex
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ah. I would suggest that, in keeping with legal practice we should instead split persons into natural persons and artificial persons, and have R101 assign rights only to the natural

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PNP Voting

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:14 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that Wooble caused the PNP to send these votes not because e thought they would work, but because it was the easiest way of uncluttering the PNP's idea of what was going on in Agora after its server crash. Say, this

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Quazie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the very act of doing that removes the rights of them as persons, which is against R101, does a change to R101 have to comply with R101? Not if a temporory Power-3.1 rule allows otherwise. -root

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Sgeo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that partnerships aren't people. They are if they're public and have a basis of at least two,

DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
There has been recent debate over whether a failing action should be illegal or not. Here's some arguments. First, let's take a look at how performing actions by announcement works. You write a message stating that you perform an action, and somehow, when you send off the message, it happens.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PNP Voting

2008-07-15 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can't just add a week from the distribution date? I believe the rationale for not doing that was to not remove proposals that were still in their voting period due to failed quorum, but that's been rare lately, and I'd be

DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 2027, and a proposal to fix something

2008-07-15 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:55 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submit the following proposal (AI=3,II=0,Title=Making 2125(e) actually do something): Replace paragraph (e) of rule 2125 with the following: {{{ e) It would, as part of its effect, modify information which the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 2027, and a proposal to fix something

2008-07-15 Thread ais523
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:59 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:55 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I submit the following proposal (AI=3,II=0,Title=Making 2125(e) actually do something): Replace paragraph (e) of rule 2125 with the following: {{{ e) It

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Elliott Hird wrote: No, doer vs non-doer would not be a question of rights. Only people have rights, and thus partnerships wouldn't. Do you even read the ruleset? R2145. I suppose one could make the argument that R101 applies to natural persons only and so supersedes

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread comex
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Elliott Hird wrote: No, doer vs non-doer would not be a question of rights. Only people have rights, and thus partnerships wouldn't. Do you even read the ruleset? R2145. I presume ehird is

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, let's take a look at how performing actions by announcement works. You write a message stating that you perform an action, and somehow, when you send off the message, it happens. (Note that this is actually ISTID,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 comex [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Elliott Hird wrote: No, doer vs non-doer would not be a question of rights. Only people have rights, and thus partnerships wouldn't. Do you even read the ruleset?

DIS: Re: OFF: Building the Monster

2008-07-15 Thread comex
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:19 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:15 -0700, Dice server wrote: 19 I submit the following proposal (AI=1, II=0, Title=Exilous Monsteredicts, based on rule 2144): Append the following to the rule entitled The Monster: {{{

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread ais523
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:58 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: Intentionally failing to perform an action is a form of dishonesty, and it should be every bit as illegal as any other lie. Do you have a specific scenario in mind where this is not the case? Goethe and I have both posted examples of such

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:02 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:58 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: Intentionally failing to perform an action is a form of dishonesty, and it should be every bit as illegal as any other lie. Do you have a specific scenario in mind where this

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: Building the Monster

2008-07-15 Thread ais523
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 16:01 -0400, comex wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:19 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:15 -0700, Dice server wrote: 19 I submit the following proposal (AI=1, II=0, Title=Exilous Monsteredicts, based on rule 2144): Append the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 2027, and a proposal to fix something

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Neat. I create 1 billion chits in my possession. If some people get their way I could criminal CFJ you if you did this to a-b.

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: The statement is obviously not FALSE. Here's where it breaks down. If this is considered to be a poorly-labeled and communicated statement, it's not obvious. -Goethe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We all have our ehird moments

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Sgeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that what first-class is for? More or less. The purpose of first-class was to restrict abilities, not rights, but there's no reason they couldn't be conflated into the same thing. -root

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread ais523
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:04 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: Links? I haven't been following the full discussion. From memory: Goethe, as an officer in the past, attempted to give someone a fractional amount of currency because a rule forced em to do so (and this action failed); I gave the example of the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 2027, and a proposal to fix something

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Geoffrey Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Neat. I create 1 billion chits in my possession. If some people get their way I could criminal CFJ you if you did this to a-b. Why couldn't you do it as is? -root

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:02 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:58 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: Intentionally failing to perform an action is a form of dishonesty, and it should be every bit as illegal as any other lie. Do you have a

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Plugging another loophole

2008-07-15 Thread Taral
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amend Rule 1504 (Criminal Cases) by replacing this text: * UNIMPUGNED, appropriate if the alleged act was not proscribed by the specified rule at the time it allegedly occurred with this text: *

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 2027, and a proposal to fix something

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why couldn't you do it as is? -root Failing actions aren't illegal yet, thank god.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Plugging another loophole

2008-07-15 Thread ais523
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:25 -0700, Taral wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amend Rule 1504 (Criminal Cases) by replacing this text: * UNIMPUGNED, appropriate if the alleged act was not proscribed by the specified rule at the time it

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: although (a) to be fair, I covered those attempts with various disclaimers explaining the situation, although (b) I'm puzzled by the disclaimers issue. If you disclaim an action (those of you who claim that action statements can be false) wouldn't the

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, ais523 wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:04 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: immediately when the voting period ends (and in general, I don't think it should be illegal to try to vote on something after the end of the voting period, because that would entail the voter, rather than

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:04 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: Links? I haven't been following the full discussion. From memory: Goethe, as an officer in the past, attempted to give someone a fractional amount of currency because a rule

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Plugging another loophole

2008-07-15 Thread Sgeo
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:25 -0700, Taral wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amend Rule 1504 (Criminal Cases) by replacing this text: * UNIMPUGNED, appropriate if the alleged act

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Plugging another loophole

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Sgeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: comex got out of being found guilty in a criminal case by alleging that the act occurred a long time ago, even though it didn't (with appropriate disclaimers), thus forcing an OVERLOOKED version. Wouldn't e be guilty of lying then? (with appropriate

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Judgement in CFJ 2027, and a proposal to fix something

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Elliott Hird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why couldn't you do it as is? -root Failing actions aren't illegal yet, thank god. In your opinion, perhaps. -root

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:04 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: Links? I haven't been following the full discussion. From memory: Goethe, as an officer in the past, attempted to give someone a

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: although (a) to be fair, I covered those attempts with various disclaimers explaining the situation, although (b) I'm puzzled by the disclaimers issue. If you disclaim an action (those of you who claim that action statements

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: YOU MISS THE POINT. WHY IS IT JUST OR VALUABLE TO AGORA TO FORCE US TO ANSWER TO CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS FOR THIS SORT OF THING IN THE FIRST PLACE THIS PLACE HAS BEEN CRIMINALIZED ENOUGH, AND NOW YOU'RE ASKING US TO BE PARANOID ABOUT OUR EVERY ATTEMPT

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: Perhaps our criterion of illegality should be whether the message included intent to deceive, not absolute positive belief in the statement's truth. I liked a version that included intent to deceive, Zefram didn't care for it so it disappeared from

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I liked a version that included intent to deceive, Zefram didn't care for it so it disappeared from Murphy's draft. Intent to deceive is a good way to cover, say, making true statements but sending them from an imposter email account. -Goethe And

DIS: Re: BUS: This would be against the Rules, do you want it to be?

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Elliott Hird wrote: 2008/7/15 Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I dance. I dance a dance of being free to say I do so. A dance of freedom. A free-from-dumb dance. I dance. I kill Goethe. Nyaaah, my coffee cup is +5 vs. ISID.

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YOU MISS THE POINT. WHY IS IT JUST OR VALUABLE TO AGORA TO FORCE US TO ANSWER TO CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS FOR THIS SORT OF THING IN THE FIRST PLACE THIS PLACE HAS BEEN CRIMINALIZED ENOUGH, AND NOW YOU'RE ASKING US TO BE

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2048 judged UNIMPUGNED by Taral

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: I support this. The precedent from CFJ 1738 is that speech acts do carry truth values. Additionally, I know of no precedent stating what Taral claims. The action having received two support, I hereby appeal CFJ 2048. Um, did you just attempt to act

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2048 judged UNIMPUGNED by Taral

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: I support this. The precedent from CFJ 1738 is that speech acts do carry truth values. Additionally, I know of no precedent stating what Taral claims. The action having received two

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2048 judged UNIMPUGNED by Taral

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: R1728 allows that. We voted that in after comex deliberately prevented an appeal by announcing eir intent to do it and then never actually doing it, remember? Nope! Now I know tho. :)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2048 judged UNIMPUGNED by Taral

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: R1728 allows that. We voted that in after comex deliberately prevented an appeal by announcing eir intent to do it and then never actually doing it, remember? I remember that in #ircnomic. :)

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread ais523
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:25 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: If you disclaim an action (those of you who claim that action statements can be false) wouldn't the disclaimer always cause it to fail? You can't have it both ways! CFJ 1971. Maybe that'll have to be revisited in the light of this

DIS: Re: BUS: This would be against the Rules, do you want it to be?

2008-07-15 Thread ais523
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:38 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: I dance. I dance a dance of being free to say I do so. A dance of freedom. A free-from-dumb dance. I dance. Is that a Powerful Dance? -- ais523

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: This would be against the Rules, do you want it to be?

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:38 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: I dance. I dance a dance of being free to say I do so. A dance of freedom. A free-from-dumb dance. I dance. Is that a Powerful Dance? Powerful Dances are worth a lot, I don't see why e'd dance away so

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with that. A disclaimed assertion is no longer an assertion. I argued as much when comex made eir OVERLOOKED allegation, but nobody seemed to agree with me at the time. Although apparently I supported the panel's

DIS: Re: BUS: Hello

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/15 comex [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi!

DIS: Re: BUS: Hello

2008-07-15 Thread ihope
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:11 PM, comex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I support. --Ivan Hope CXXVII

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PNP Voting

2008-07-15 Thread Ed Murphy
ais523 wrote: Say, this is another argument for allowing attempts to perform actions which will certainly fail; the PNP often votes late on Agoran Decisions due to the players of PerlNomic not deciding fast enough, and it's much easier for it to simply perform the failed actions than it would

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:02 PM, ais523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:58 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: Intentionally failing to perform an action is a form of dishonesty, and it should be every bit as illegal as any other lie.

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, ais523 wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:25 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: If you disclaim an action (those of you who claim that action statements can be false) wouldn't the disclaimer always cause it to fail? You can't have it both ways! CFJ 1971. Maybe that'll have to be

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ed Murphy wrote: I think the intended interpretation is that I do X (disclaimer: maybe not) is ineffective, while I do X (disclaimer: not if Y) is effective provided that Y is false at the time (IOW, it's equivalent to if not Y then I do X). Trivial to turn maybe not

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: Perhaps our criterion of illegality should be whether the message included intent to deceive, not absolute positive belief in the statement's truth. I liked a version that included intent to deceive, Zefram didn't care for it so it

Re: DIS: I say I do, therefore I do

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ed Murphy wrote: I think that (a) you're discussing intent to mislead in general, and (b) Zefram and I objected to what used to be called recklessness wrt the truth (i.e. publishing a statement without bothering to consider whether it was true or not). Would you be happy

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Draft Ruling in CFJ 2023

2008-07-15 Thread Zefram
Taral wrote: Well, the problem is that there's two ways to phrase the CFJ: Back when we started doing criminal CFJs this issue came up. CFJ 1720 decided that by default the rule violated was not part of the action being tried. That was before we required explicit specification of the rule

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PNP Voting

2008-07-15 Thread Zefram
ais523 wrote: Say, this is another argument for allowing attempts to perform actions which will certainly fail; This is a reason for the PNP's message to include a phrase such as if the proposal is in its voting period. Zefram does not update it instantaneously when the

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2008-07-15 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: I CFJ on this statement. Patently TRUE. By stating it you do in fact initiate the described CFJ, via the rules on acting by announcement. This makes the statement true. And it's obviously relevant. -zefram

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: I CFJ on this statement. Patently TRUE. By stating it you do in fact initiate the described CFJ, via the rules on acting by announcement. This makes the statement true. And it's obviously relevant. That's

DIS: Re: BUS: CRIMINAL CASES

2008-07-15 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: - action: claiming to dance in eir message with message-id The term dance has a specialised meaning in the context of Agora, referring to a verbal (rather than kinaesthetic) activity. By that meaning, Goethe did in fact dance in that message. - action: claiming to kill Goethe in

DIS: Privileged to Attempt

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
What about the fact that while doing something is regulated, attempting to do something (and failing) is not regulated, and therefore a privilege? -Goethe

DIS: Re: BUS: CRIMINAL CASES

2008-07-15 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: - rule: 2149 - action: eating cake. R2149 does not regulate gustatory activity. - rule: 2149 - action: claiming that eating cake is a violation of Rule 2149 Ah, finally, a non-trivial issue. We haven't actually established whether the initiation of a criminal CFJ constitutes an

DIS: Re: BUS: This subject is only a subject if it is a subject

2008-07-15 Thread Zefram
Elliott Hird wrote: If the above statement is false, This condition cannot be evaluated by any reasonable effort, so the attempted action is invalid due to unclarity. -zefram

Re: DIS: Privileged to Attempt

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the fact that while doing something is regulated, attempting to do something (and failing) is not regulated, and therefore a privilege? Isn't it regulated by R2149? -root

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CRIMINAL CASES

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Zefram wrote: comex wrote: - action: claiming to dance in eir message with message-id The term dance has a specialised meaning in the context of Agora, referring to a verbal (rather than kinaesthetic) activity. By that meaning, Goethe did in fact dance in that message.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: This subject is only a subject if it is a subject

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/16 Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Elliott Hird wrote: If the above statement is false, This condition cannot be evaluated by any reasonable effort, so the attempted action is invalid due to unclarity. -zefram It can be evaluated trivially - ask me.

Re: DIS: Privileged to Attempt

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the fact that while doing something is regulated, attempting to do something (and failing) is not regulated, and therefore a privilege? Isn't it regulated by R2149? An

Re: DIS: Privileged to Attempt

2008-07-15 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the fact that while doing something is regulated, attempting to do something (and failing) is not regulated, and therefore a privilege? You mean a right. It's your privilege to do what you wilt, regardless of

Re: DIS: Privileged to Attempt

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An announcement, in general, does not fit any of the R2125 definitions of regulated. If an overly broad interpretation of R2149 infringes on R101, we have a clearly specified method of determining precedence. An

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CRIMINAL CASES

2008-07-15 Thread Quazie
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comex wrote: - rule: 2149 - action: eating cake. R2149 does not regulate gustatory activity. - rule: 2149 - action: claiming that eating cake is a violation of Rule 2149 E actually violated a contract instead. ##nomic was a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CRIMINAL CASES

2008-07-15 Thread Quazie
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Zefram wrote: comex wrote: - action: claiming to dance in eir message with message-id The term dance has a specialised meaning in the context of Agora, referring to a verbal (rather than kinaesthetic)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CRIMINAL CASES

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/16 Quazie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: E actually violated a contract instead. ##nomic was a contract forbidding the eating of cake at the time (if i have my timing correct). That was after.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: The baseline option

2008-07-15 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/7/16 Quazie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: WIth 2 supporters I make teh aboce proposal Democratic. Can you do that?

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: The baseline option

2008-07-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Elliott Hird wrote: I support, let's do this thang. Thanks. uh, have you fixed that player think yet? -G.

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