Re: DIS: Since we're doing fancy contracts...

2018-10-27 Thread Reuben Staley
It was decided the current system was too complicated for how many use cases it was applicable in do Aris made proposals to simplify it and get rid of the Notary. They are now meant to be more short-term and to serve a single purpose. On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 21:18 Gaelan Steele wrote: > (Recent)

Re: DIS: Since we're doing fancy contracts...

2018-10-27 Thread Gaelan Steele
(Recent) history question: why did contracts stop being entities that show up in a report? Gaelan > On Oct 27, 2018, at 5:15 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > ...here's another idea I've been toying with for a while: > > > This document is a contract between twg (the "Game Master" or "GM")

Re: DIS: Since we're doing fancy contracts...

2018-10-27 Thread ATMunn
I'd probably participate in this. One thing worth noting is that, don't quote me on this, but I don't think parties are a rule-defined term anymore. On 10/27/2018 8:15 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: ...here's another idea I've been toying with for a while: This document is a contract between

Re: DIS: [Proto-proposal] space i guess?

2018-10-27 Thread ATMunn
Comments on comments below, but in a nutshell: Stuff will get fixed next draft. On 10/27/2018 7:27 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote: Feedback inline. I wrote most of the proposal feedback before reading other comments, so some of this may be duplicated. On Oct 15, 2018, at 6:13 PM, ATMunn wrote:

DIS: Re: proto-Agoran People’s Party

2018-10-27 Thread D. Margaux
Thank you for the helpful comments. I clarify below. On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 8:34 PM Gaelan Steele wrote: > Feedback inline > > Gaelan > > > > 103. Joining the Party. Any active player CAN become a Member: > > > > (a) by announcement consenting to be bound by this Charter, if the > Party

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: There really, really, is nothing to see here this time

2018-10-27 Thread Gaelan Steele
No—I would have barred him. Gaelan > On Oct 27, 2018, at 5:28 PM, D. Margaux wrote: > > I am tempted to assign this to G., so that e is required to give a verdict > that compiles with No Faking. Any reason why I shouldn’t do that? > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 8:22 PM Gaelan Steele wrote: >

DIS: Re: proto-Agoran People’s Party

2018-10-27 Thread Gaelan Steele
Feedback inline Gaelan > On Oct 27, 2018, at 5:10 PM, D Margaux wrote: > > I had an idea for a perhaps fun game-within-a-game. Was curious what everyone > thinks. > > The idea is to have a contractual voting bloc or political party (different > from the political parties pun subgame of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: There really, really, is nothing to see here this time

2018-10-27 Thread Aris Merchant
E could recuse, find it INSUFFICENT, publish a disclaimer with the ruling, or probably get out of it in several other ways that I haven’t thought of. -Aris On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 5:29 PM D. Margaux wrote: > I am tempted to assign this to G., so that e is required to give a verdict > that

DIS: Re: BUS: There really, really, is nothing to see here this time

2018-10-27 Thread D. Margaux
I am tempted to assign this to G., so that e is required to give a verdict that compiles with No Faking. Any reason why I shouldn’t do that? On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 8:22 PM Gaelan Steele wrote: > I CFJ “By sending a message at 3:35 PM Pacific on October 27, G. performed > one or more regulated

DIS: Since we're doing fancy contracts...

2018-10-27 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
...here's another idea I've been toying with for a while: This document is a contract between twg (the "Game Master" or "GM") and one or more other parties (the "Competitors"). Any player can become a Competitor and any Competitor can cease to be a party to this contract. The GM cannot cease

DIS: proto-Agoran People’s Party

2018-10-27 Thread D Margaux
I had an idea for a perhaps fun game-within-a-game. Was curious what everyone thinks. The idea is to have a contractual voting bloc or political party (different from the political parties pun subgame of course). Under the contract, people could join the party by announcement and leave with,

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Weekly report: Delenda fuit

2018-10-27 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Yep, G. pointed this out too. Sorry for the misclassification - I've fixed it for the next report (which will be in less than a week so no need to bother posting a revision now). -twg ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, October 27, 2018 6:58 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote: > CoE: I’m not

Re: DIS: private contract powers

2018-10-27 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 19:35 -0400, D. Margaux wrote: > UNDEAD seems super interesting. I just looked at a bunch of emails > from the archive, but how did that end up? Was the contract ever > revealed? It fizzled due to being excessively cautious. Given how it was determined to not reveal any

DIS: Re: BUS: There really, really, is nothing to see here this time

2018-10-27 Thread Gaelan Steele
Huh. Nothing of interest in headers that I could see, and no unicode anywhere in the message. If this is hiding something, it’s doing a damn good job. Maybe it’s a test for a timing scam? I’m intrigued, yet worried. Gaelan > On Oct 27, 2018, at 3:32 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >

Re: DIS: private contract powers

2018-10-27 Thread D. Margaux
UNDEAD seems super interesting. I just looked at a bunch of emails from the archive, but how did that end up? Was the contract ever revealed? > On Oct 27, 2018, at 6:54 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: >>> On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 15:30 -0700,

Re: DIS: [Proto-proposal] space i guess?

2018-10-27 Thread Gaelan Steele
> On Oct 16, 2018, at 5:36 PM, ATMunn wrote: > > Thank you for the feedback! Comments on comments below. > > On 10/16/2018 2:00 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> Some hopefully-helpful comments... >>> Spaceships are indestructible fixed assets. Ownership of Spaceships >>> is restricted to

Re: DIS: [Proto-proposal] space i guess?

2018-10-27 Thread Gaelan Steele
Feedback inline. I wrote most of the proposal feedback before reading other comments, so some of this may be duplicated. > On Oct 15, 2018, at 6:13 PM, ATMunn wrote: > > so basically this is super clunky and probably not going to work, but if > you think there's any hope for it then please say

Re: DIS: private contract powers

2018-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 15:30 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On another subject, since ATMunn's judgement brought it up, I've been > > > thinking since our previous contract about what would

Re: DIS: private contract powers

2018-10-27 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 15:30 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On another subject, since ATMunn's judgement brought it up, I've been > > thinking since our previous contract about what would happen if we put > > out a hashed contract, with one of the clauses

DIS: private contract powers

2018-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
(oops, replied to the wrong thread obviously... changing the subject line here to avoid confusion in case there's more discussion) On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On another subject, since ATMunn's judgement brought it up, I've been > thinking since our previous contract about what

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3665 and 3666 judged TRUE

2018-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Apologies Aris - I too was focused on the coins, and agree with you on the "binding" part. -G. On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, D. Margaux wrote: > Aris, sorry, I should have been clearer in my email. > > I do agree with you about the contract existence and effect part. I think a > contract with

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Weekly report: Delenda fuit

2018-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On another subject, since ATMunn's judgement brought it up, I've been thinking since our previous contract about what would happen if we put out a hashed contract, with one of the clauses being "the parties won't reveal the text of this contract", then claiming in public that it gives various

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Weekly report: Delenda fuit

2018-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Yup - if you've been sold at least once you're eligible (because the buyer probably looted you). Last paragraph of R2532. On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, ATMunn wrote: > I think a player who de-zombified emself is eligible for a welcome package > again. > > On 10/27/2018 3:02 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote: >

Re: DIS: [Proto-proposal] space i guess?

2018-10-27 Thread ATMunn
On 10/27/2018 4:07 PM, Edward Murphy wrote: ATMunn wrote: Enact a new rule entitled "Fame", with the following text: { Every player has a Fame switch, with possible values being all integers between -10 and 10. Players with positive Fame are Famous, and those with negative Fame

Re: DIS: [Proto-proposal] space i guess?

2018-10-27 Thread Edward Murphy
ATMunn wrote: Enact a new rule entitled "Fame", with the following text: {     Every player has a Fame switch, with possible values being all     integers between -10 and 10. Players with positive Fame are Famous,     and those with negative Fame are Infamous.     If a player is the Winner

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3665 and 3666 judged TRUE

2018-10-27 Thread ATMunn
Yeah, that bit was a bit iffy. But again, it seemed to kinda make sense and I just wanted the CFJ to get judged, so that was what went in. On 10/27/2018 3:06 PM, D. Margaux wrote: Aris, sorry, I should have been clearer in my email. I do agree with you about the contract existence and effect

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Weekly report: Delenda fuit

2018-10-27 Thread ATMunn
I think a player who de-zombified emself is eligible for a welcome package again. On 10/27/2018 3:02 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote: Can you? I’ve been a player for a while. Gaelan On Oct 27, 2018, at 8:02 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: Oh! And I award Gaelan a welcome package. On Sat, 27 Oct 2018,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3665 and 3666 judged TRUE

2018-10-27 Thread D. Margaux
Aris, sorry, I should have been clearer in my email. I do agree with you about the contract existence and effect part. I think a contract with secret text can be binding, have mint authority, and do anything a contract can do. It would be hard to enforce any contract obligations until the

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Weekly report: Delenda fuit

2018-10-27 Thread Gaelan Steele
Can you? I’ve been a player for a while. Gaelan > On Oct 27, 2018, at 8:02 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > Oh! And I award Gaelan a welcome package. > >> On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> >> >> >> I don't think it self-ratifies due to your report, but in case it >> does: CoE:

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3665 and 3666 judged TRUE

2018-10-27 Thread Aris Merchant
You know, I’m prepared to believe ATMunn's interpretation on the ownership thing, but I’d like to hear why my arguments are wrong or inapplicable here. On the first thing though, the “contracts are binding” one, I don’t see how the proposed interpretation could possibly be correct. Straightforward

DIS: Re: BUS: adop deputy

2018-10-27 Thread Edward Murphy
G. wrote: I intend to deputise for the ADoP to publish the ADoP's weekly Report. I'll be caught up with this one within a few minutes.

DIS: Re: OFF: [Referee] Weekly Report

2018-10-27 Thread ATMunn
Did you mean to put this as a reply to your last report? On 10/27/2018 2:35 PM, D. Margaux wrote: The Police Blotter (Referee's Weekly Report)

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Prime Minister Election begins its nomination period

2018-10-27 Thread ATMunn
On the contrary, if I become elected, I will do everything within my power to prevent any form of dictatorship, benevolent or not. So, pro-dictatorships can vote D. Margaux; anti-dictatorships can vote me. Neutrals can vote G., I guess. On 10/27/2018 12:52 PM, D. Margaux wrote: I suppose I’ll

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3665 and 3666 judged TRUE

2018-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, D. Margaux wrote: > Basically, the lack of the phrase “by announcement” removes a limitation > on the method of achieving the action; it doesn’t prevent the action from > being successful if attempted by announcement. I think. This used to be true, and was found in

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Weekly report: Delenda fuit

2018-10-27 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Well, none of the report actually self-ratifies at the moment because of the bug I pointed out last week, but zombie status wouldn't do anyway, no. I'll fix this for next week's report and publish it as a revision to this one. Sorry Gaelan. -twg ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3665 and 3666 judged TRUE

2018-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Really good point! I hadn't thought of that in specific context of language usage versus diversity of thought. More generally: because "reasonable people may differ" and also because we want to encourage everyone to judge and to become more comfortable judging (and judging is hard work),

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3665 and 3666 judged TRUE

2018-10-27 Thread D. Margaux
> On Oct 27, 2018, at 9:31 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > You might > decide to change it, but it's a well-argued judgement and an > interpretation that's reasonable, despite not containing any fancy Latin. Incidentally, this touches on one reason why I personally wouldn’t want to privilege

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3665 and 3666 judged TRUE

2018-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Actually, the coin-into-fountain rule (R2572) is missing a By Announcement. So that rule doesn't enable it. The only thing that enables asset destruction is in R2577, which specifies "by its owner". On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Oh well we can't have that. I destroy all coins

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3665 and 3666 judged TRUE

2018-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
Just to say that this was discussed at the time, and at least two others (other than myself) agreed with the judgement you actually gave (I was initially in Aris's camp personally but now I see it both ways). I'm particularly interested in twg's opinion, which was pretty firmly in line with

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3665 and 3666 judged TRUE

2018-10-27 Thread ATMunn
Honestly, I really wasn't that interested in these CFJs, but they were assigned to me so I had to judge them. I've only judged one or two CFJs before, so I'm not the best at rules interpretation. I wanted to get the CFJ off my back in time (but still put in effort, I wasn't about to go "I