Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 6:12 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On 9/10/2019 4:43 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > If not, we’re gating proposals out of an > > abstract opinion that they ought to be gated rather than because it’s in > > anyone’s interest. > > I could say it's a load on everyone (i.e. the

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 9/10/2019 4:43 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > If not, we’re gating proposals out of an > abstract opinion that they ought to be gated rather than because it’s in > anyone’s interest. I could say it's a load on everyone (i.e. the "voters") when lots of proposals get submitted without much

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Jason Cobb
On 9/10/19 8:21 PM, Jason Cobb wrote: I've written a script to parse the distributions, so the fact that there are proposals doesn't affect me there. Whoops - yes the fact that proposals exist does affect me, but the number doesn't. -- Jason Cobb

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Jason Cobb
On 9/9/19 6:10 AM, Reuben Staley wrote: Create a new rule with title "Interest Groups", power 1, and text:   An interest group is an entity defined as such by this rule. Each   interest group has a goal. The following are the interest groups   of Agora and their goals:   A.

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Jason Cobb
On 9/10/19 7:43 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: Who do infinite free proposals hurt? The only people I can think of who might be adversely affected are the Promotor and the Assessor (if the proposals are really bad, they’ll never hit the Rulekeepor, and extra the amount of work for voters isn’t big).

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Reuben Staley
On 9/10/19 9:43 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I really *do* like the idea of different sectors with different "performance values" with currency speculation between them, and the event-constrained random walk governing the various values (i.e. something semi-predictable so an attentive player can

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 4:20 PM Reuben Staley wrote: > On 9/10/19 4:10 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote:> I do wonder if maybe "all > the interlocking cogs... turning fine" is part of the problem. In > real-life political systems, things keep changing because people still > feel that they are

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Reuben Staley
On 9/10/19 4:10 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote:> I do wonder if maybe "all the interlocking cogs... turning fine" is part of the problem. In real-life political systems, things keep changing because people still feel that they are inadequate or unjust, or because there are current events that

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 9/9/2019 3:10 AM, Reuben Staley wrote: >During the first Eastman week of each month, the Treasuror CAN and >SHALL perform the following actions, collectively known as >Balancing, in sequence: Now that I look more closely, my specific concerns are doubled - this

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 9/10/2019 3:10 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > Perhaps it's time to deliberately tinkering some of the core rules and see > what happens? For example, I know from archives that proposals tend to > oscillate between "free and accessible to everyone" and "gated behind game > mechanics". When

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 9/9/2019 3:10 AM, Reuben Staley wrote: > Their recordkeepor is the Treasuror. After the last couple debacles, I'm making a firm policy of voting against any minigame, no matter how good on paper, that where the proposor emself isn't installed into office as the game runner (whether via a

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 7:58 AM, Reuben Staley wrote: > I don't know what you want to improve about the core system. The most > change that has been enacted in the past few months to the core system > are minor fixes that clarify things. Sure, we find a broken bit > sometimes, but those

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Reuben Staley
On 9/10/19 1:10 AM, Aris Merchant wrote: No comment on the specific proposal yet, but a general comment. I think we should wait a while before having another mini-game. The last few we've had have died, not because they were bad ideas, but partly because of bugs and most of all because there

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 12:10 AM Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 3:07 AM Reuben Staley wrote: > > > > > > > This idea has been stewing for a long time, and this is the rough draft > > of a proposal that

Re: DIS: Proto for a new economics system

2019-09-10 Thread Aris Merchant
On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 3:07 AM Reuben Staley wrote: > > > This idea has been stewing for a long time, and this is the rough draft > of a proposal that captures my initial thoughts somewhat. > > I am putting this out there

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Another Draft Since I Took So Long

2019-09-10 Thread Aris Merchant
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 10:02 PM Jason Cobb wrote: > > On 9/8/19 12:57 AM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > Here's another draft, sorry for the inconvenience. > > > > -Aris > > > > --- > > I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran > > Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it