Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Not so fast!

2019-02-20 Thread James Cook
> I'd prefer to just repeat the cleanings. Mass changes to the ruleset > are one of the riskiest things you can do in Agora (which is why there > are so many protections preventing them being done by accident). My proposal says "The gamestate is changed...". I assumed that includes the rules, maki

Re: DIS: Re: CFJ 3719

2019-02-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
You had me with the video. (Illustrating common legal uses of "declare" in context is far more satisfactory/convincing IMO than the "capitalization = word loses its basic meaning" approach). On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 9:26 AM D. Margaux wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:33 AM D Margaux wro

DIS: Re: CFJ 3719

2019-02-20 Thread D. Margaux
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:33 AM D Margaux wrote: > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: D Margaux > Date: February 20, 2019 at 7:28:31 AM EST > To: Agora Business > Subject: Re: BUS: Victory by Apathy > > > > On Feb 19, 2019, at 10:56 PM, James Cook wrote: > > I initiate a Call for Judge

DIS: Re: BUS: Victory by Apathy

2019-02-20 Thread D. Margaux
On Feb 20, 2019, at 2:10 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> If a scam along these lines worked, the required declaration would have >> to express apathy the concept, not "apathy" the word. Something like "I >> am apathetic." might potentially work, but it's a bit of a stretch. This reminds me of an em

DIS: AI learning to play "nomic" (with NEAT)

2019-02-20 Thread Cuddle Beam
For a good while now I've wanted to figure out a way to have little machine-learning bots play nomic and learn and improve at the game to see what kind of emergent strategies they develop. Problem is, real nomic is real fucking complicated lmao. So, I figured I could try to simplify it somehow. Al