Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] Docket

2013-07-29 Thread Jonathan Rouillard
Ooops, missed that. Got it. ~ Roujo On 2013-07-28 10:54 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/07/2013 10:52 PM, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: Naughtiness (Rule 2356) --- PVN: 1 Unvirtuous: Fool By the way, naughtiness no longer exists.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] Docket

2013-07-29 Thread Jonathan Rouillard
Accepted. I'll clean up that part of the report - I'm doing it manually right now, but I really should automate it. Sorry about that. ~ Roujo On 2013-07-29 5:14 AM, Charles Walker charles.w.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 Jul 2013, at 03:52, Jonathan Rouillard jonathan.rouill...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3362 assigned to OscarMeyr

2013-07-29 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Tanner Swett swe...@mail.gvsu.edu wrote: On Jul 26, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Benjamin Schultz wrote: Ah. My search-fu failed me. Probably because it was broken over multiple lines. Proto: The Rulekeepor SHALL publish the entire ruleset as one line.

DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
Curry's paradox hasn't gotten much attention in Agora. It came up in discussion a couple of times, and in terms of usage in-game, all I found was someone CFJing a free-floating sentence If this sentence is true, then I win. That was about 10 years ago. Well, this isn't a free-floating

DIS: Gratuitous arguments for Agorans

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
As I've been told in the context of Gerontocracy (which, BTW, was lifted by proposal 7519), the normal Agoran approach is to have fun with the unexpected new rules, rather than complain about them. But, as I understand, even though dictatorship isn't unprecedented around here, it tends to be

DIS: Gratuitous arguments for lawyers

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
I know some of you here advocate a less logicist and more legalist approach, and I guess this is the bit where you watch the logicians sweat as Peter Suber would have it. Well, the paradox I present to you is: how should a legalist rule in a game which has a tradition of absurd literalism?

DIS: Re: BUS: May as well REALLY settle this

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 5:30 PM, omd wrote: I suppose it's appropriate to say that paraconsistent logic isn't an appropriate answer; unless the rules use language that expect us to work indirectly to determine the possibility of an action, it's necessary to go all the way to intuitionistic logic. I am,

DIS: Re: BUS: Stuff

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: In the name of Davy I, Queen of Agora Nomic, CAT 24, and her other realms, I cause the new rule created by proposal 7537 to amend itself to read: Hmm... it is interesting how Rule 101 (iv) might be interpreted in view of there only

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Stuff

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 5:48 PM, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Foolfool1...@gmail.com wrote: In the name of Davy I, Queen of Agora Nomic, CAT 24, and her other realms, I cause the new rule created by proposal 7537 to amend itself to read: Hmm... it is interesting how Rule 101 (iv) might

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Stuff

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: How rule 101 might HAVE been interpreted, past tense. Your proposal passed. Hey, wasn't my idea... Good point.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: May as well REALLY settle this

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: I am, as it happens, a mathematical constructivist. The reasoning is fully constructive (goes through in intuitionistic logic). Please elaborate.

DIS: Re: BUS: May as well REALLY settle this

2013-07-29 Thread Charles Walker
On 29 July 2013 22:30, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: It would, incidentally, be more polite to attempt to achieve a dictatorship in a way other than deregistering everyone. Especially when it would have been just as easy to do it some other, less annoying, way.

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 16:26 -0400, Fool wrote: Curry's paradox hasn't gotten much attention in Agora. It came up in discussion a couple of times, and in terms of usage in-game, all I found was someone CFJing a free-floating sentence If this sentence is true, then I win. That was about 10

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:15 PM, Alex Smith wrote: You forgot the Gerontocracy. The with notice is modified by the Elder objections, thus breaking your loop. I did not. Gerontocracy was lifted by proposal 7519. Also, Agora generally denies the law of the excluded middle It's constructive and does

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: The sentences in question are not directly self-referential or even mutually-referential. This is more of a Curry-flavoured confused deputy, with rule 2337 as the deputy. It says that the author can destroy a promise with notice IFF the sentence in its

DIS: Re: BUS: May as well REALLY settle this

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:16 PM, Alex Smith wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 16:26 -0400, Fool wrote: I cash the promise titled !!! [Text: !!!. Cashing condition: This promise has existed for 2 months. It was created May 21.] CoE: Which two months has it existed for? June, certainly. But it hasn't existed

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:20 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: The sentences in question are not directly self-referential or even mutually-referential. This is more of a Curry-flavoured confused deputy, with rule 2337 as the deputy. It says that the author can destroy a promise

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 18:20 -0400, Fool wrote: On 29/07/2013 6:15 PM, Alex Smith wrote: You forgot the Gerontocracy. The with notice is modified by the Elder objections, thus breaking your loop. I did not. Gerontocracy was lifted by proposal 7519. Also, Agora generally denies the law

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: On 29/07/2013 6:20 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: The sentences in question are not directly self-referential or even mutually-referential. This is more of a Curry-flavoured confused deputy, with rule 2337 as the deputy. It says

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: How do you define iff (in the rules) in the absence of the law of excluded middle? It may not be the same way that the rules themselves do. Ah, yes. That makes sense. ((a - b) - a) - b holds intuitionistically, but (((a - b)

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Alex Smith wrote: If they dispose of their dictatorship quickly via win+trophy, Agora typically tolerates them. (Sometimes there's a race where someone with a power-1 dictatorship tries to get it at a higher power; normally the time limit for that is long enough for the

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:27 PM, Alex Smith wrote: Where does a week or more come from? It's the length of time to adopt a proposal; most such scams normally involved preventing everyone else from voting for long enough to pass a dictatorship proposal. I passed a rule giving me immediate amendment

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:32 PM, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Alex Smithais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: How do you define iff (in the rules) in the absence of the law of excluded middle? It may not be the same way that the rules themselves do. Ah, yes. That makes sense. ((a - b)- a) - b

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Charles Walker
On 29 July 2013 23:40, Ørjan Johansen oer...@nvg.ntnu.no wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Alex Smith wrote: If they dispose of their dictatorship quickly via win+trophy, Agora typically tolerates them. (Sometimes there's a race where someone with a power-1 dictatorship tries to get it at a higher

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: How's that. Why is it (~(a-b) - ~a) and not (a - (a-b)) ? IMPOSSIBLE except as allowed ~(allowed) - ~a It's allowed if a - b, therefore ~(a - b) - ~a. So, you admit it's NOT IMPOSSIBLE for me to do this stuff? :-) Possibly.

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Elliott Hird
This whole thing strikes me as being in incredibly poor form and I disapprove of it. (People who were around to see me years ago can stop laughing now.)

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 18:44 -0400, Fool wrote: Uh.. ok. What's the trophy and what's the time limit for getting it? Anything permanent that sticks around in the gamestate. Typical dictatorship trophies include my Patent Title of H., the Town Fountain, and omd's trophy whereby e extended the

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:59 PM, Alex Smith wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 18:44 -0400, Fool wrote: Uh.. ok. What's the trophy and what's the time limit for getting it? Anything permanent that sticks around in the gamestate. Typical dictatorship trophies include my Patent Title of H., the Town Fountain,

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 19:15 -0400, Fool wrote: And the time limit? Typically as long as it takes people to determine whether the scam worked or not. -- ais523

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
To expand on my previous argument, for what it's worth, I really don't see an interpretation that causes a problem whose solution would be making a rule (about evaluating the rules generally) saying something that (a) is assumed in just about any other context and (b) has always been left to

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 19:15 -0400, Fool wrote: And the time limit? Typically as long as it takes people to determine whether the scam worked or not. Note that this has not always been followed; scshunt kept an unambiguous

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 19:18 -0400, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 19:15 -0400, Fool wrote: And the time limit? Typically as long as it takes people to determine whether the scam worked or not. Note that this has not

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:46 PM, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Foolfool1...@gmail.com wrote: How's that. Why is it (~(a-b) - ~a) and not (a - (a-b)) ? IMPOSSIBLE except as allowed ~(allowed) - ~a It's allowed if a - b, therefore ~(a - b) - ~a. So, you admit it's NOT IMPOSSIBLE

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 19:35 -0400, Fool wrote: Let's ask if you are a player (c). If I de-registered you, you are NOT a player (b - ~c). But (b - ~c) - (~~b - ~c). So if it was NOT IMPOSSIBLE for me to de-register you, you are not a player. But it is impossible, it's secured and you have

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-7547

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 7:33 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: I assume Assessor. Voting results for Proposals 7530-7547: COE: By Rule 1950, the eligible voting entities are set at the _distribution_ of the proposal. I am not sure whether your scam succeeds (well, I doubt it

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 7:37 PM, Alex Smith wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 19:35 -0400, Fool wrote: Let's ask if you are a player (c). If I de-registered you, you are NOT a player (b - ~c). But (b - ~c) - (~~b - ~c). So if it was NOT IMPOSSIBLE for me to de-register you, you are not a player. But it

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-7547

2013-07-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: On 29/07/2013 7:33 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: I assume Assessor. Voting results for Proposals 7530-7547: COE: By Rule 1950, the eligible voting entities are set at the _distribution_ of the proposal. I am not sure whether

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 19:41 -0400, Fool wrote: Anyways, I did see your other message (sorry, a lot to reply to). The rule has power three and says I can do it by announcement. You really have to argue the rule does not say so, the other arguments are extraneous. Otherwise you're saying

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 7:49 PM, Alex Smith wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 19:41 -0400, Fool wrote: Anyways, I did see your other message (sorry, a lot to reply to). The rule has power three and says I can do it by announcement. You really have to argue the rule does not say so, the other arguments are

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: However, Rule 1688 says except as allowed by an Instrument. I don't think you can point to a single instrument that's doing the allowing here (given that you've constructed your logic based on the interaction of multiple rules),

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-7547

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 7:46 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: See the recent TIME OUT scam... making someone not an eligible voter does set their voting limit to 0. I'm claiming you haven't made them not eligible voters in the first place, even if you deregistered them. That was the TIME OUT scam -- made

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: :-) Let's ask if you are a player (c). If I de-registered you, you are NOT a player (b - ~c). But (b - ~c) - (~~b - ~c). So if it was NOT IMPOSSIBLE for me to de-register you, you are not a player. Let's ask if you are a

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 8:04 PM, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Foolfool1...@gmail.com wrote: :-) Let's ask if you are a player (c). If I de-registered you, you are NOT a player (b - ~c). But (b - ~c) - (~~b - ~c). So if it was NOT IMPOSSIBLE for me to de-register you, you are not a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-7547

2013-07-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: On 29/07/2013 7:46 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: See the recent TIME OUT scam... making someone not an eligible voter does set their voting limit to 0. I'm claiming you haven't made them not eligible voters in the first place, even if you deregistered them.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-7547

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Ørjan Johansen oer...@nvg.ntnu.no wrote: I don't see anything in the Rules where activity changes affect votes on proposals after the voting period has already begun. If that was judged to the opposite effect I would suggest a reconsideration. That scam was

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-47

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:16 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: x7531 30 O omd Painfully explicit timing x7532 30 O omd Alternative: just ban last-minute actions x7533 30 O omd Referendum on date rewriting I almost prefer the scam version. Don't blame me

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-47

2013-07-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 21:20 -0400, omd wrote: Seriously? The proposal doesn't do anything. Proposals written in the form of a question normally don't do a whole lot. -- ais523

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Sean Hunt
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: The sentences in question are not directly self-referential or even mutually-referential. This is more of a Curry-flavoured confused deputy, with rule 2337 as the deputy. It says that the author can destroy a promise with notice

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: The sentences in question are not directly self-referential or even mutually-referential. This is more of a Curry-flavoured confused deputy, with rule

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 23:35 -0400, omd wrote: Per previously mentioned entirely constructivist arguments, we can conclude from the /existence/ of this statement that I am a banana. I think bananas count as biological, and you seem capable of communicating via email in English, so I don't see a