DIS: Re: BUS: Re: [Arbitor] CFJ 3828 Assigned to G.

2020-05-06 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Wed, May 6, 2020, 16:20 Aris Merchant via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > I intend, with 2 support, to group-file a motion to reconsider. I agree > with the judge's verdict, but Warrigal's objections are sufficiently > significant that they deserve an response on the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: [Arbitor] CFJ 3828 Assigned to G.

2020-05-06 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Wed, May 6, 2020, 14:36 Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/6/2020 10:44 AM, Tanner Swett via agora-discussion wrote: > > You seem to be saying that it's possible for a value to be unambiguous > > despite being indeterminate. T

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: [Arbitor] CFJ 3828 Assigned to G.

2020-05-06 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
G., you're making some interesting arguments. Here's how I see things, first of all. Let's suppose the rules say that a particular switch has two possible values, A and B. To me, there are three possible situations here. The first situation is that it is clear which value the switch has. In

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: [Arbitor] CFJ 3828 Assigned to G.

2020-05-06 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Wed, May 6, 2020, 01:29 Rebecca via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Indeterminacy is different to "ambiguity". The indeterminacy here arises > from the inability to determine the location of a certain game asset, > rather than lack of clarity in the text of the

DIS: Re: BUS: Cleanliness Intent in Rule 105

2020-04-19 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
Does the rule actually say "an statue" currently? Proposal 8354 replaced "an instrument" with "a statute", and presumably the Rulekeepor accidentally recorded the new wording as "an statue" instead. Was the mistake ratified? —Warrigal

DIS: Re: BUS: [CFJ] regarding Alexis's CoE on the SLR/FLR

2020-04-13 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 7:41 PM Jason Cobb via agora-business wrote: > I CFJ: "The entity once known as Rule 2601 is a rule." Argument: One of the universal principles of modifiable systems of rules is that once a rule (or portion of a rule) is removed from the system, that rule (or portion of a

DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] Thesis Submission Peer Review

2020-03-16 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
Respectfully, although Aris's thesis is interesting and well-written, it doesn't seem to show a great amount of analysis or research effort. I think that to be eligible for a degree, a thesis should show more analysis or research than, say, a typical CFJ judgement. Speaking of which, I think at

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] solving double proposal effects

2020-03-04 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
Is this needed? What's an example of a circumstance in which this would prevent something bad from happening? —Warrigal

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The Dragon Corporation

2020-03-03 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 23:12 Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Joining contracts (consent) is one of those things you can't act-on-behalf > to do (R2519), though you might decide to CFJ on clause 2. > Oh right. I did have a vague feeling that my

Re: DIS: [Notary] Draft Report

2020-03-02 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
> Mar 03 2020 01:50: > Gaelan joined, purchased 3 shares and became president CoE: You purchased 4 shares, not 3, and you did so via my t4pf a couple of minutes ago. —Warrigal

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Let's toss us a coin, shall we?

2020-03-02 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 11:34 Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Well, we purposefully error-trapped switches, which suggests that we allow > that sort of thing if the rules are explicit about it happening: > But an indeterminate value is merely one that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Let's toss us a coin, shall we?

2020-03-02 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 08:23 Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > But yeah, even if it is tradition, I'm not against just going contrary to > it since all we need to do that is enough people agreeing to do so, and I'd > agree to it (although, probably not

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Let's toss us a coin, shall we?

2020-03-02 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 06:45 Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > My proposal would just create an ambiguity in the rules, and we never > judge DISMISS due to an ambiguity in the rules; we pick an interpretation > instead. > > Why is this? (Is it just

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Let's toss us a coin, shall we?

2020-03-02 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 04:41 Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > I think this would cause: > - A big and spreading fog of war of CfJ DISMISS, because its "undecidable" > and "insufficient information exists" to know what's going on with coins > My proposal

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposals] Onward with bodies of law

2020-02-29 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 14:50 Alexis Hunt via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > [This first proposal is a reform to the core rules defining what rules > are, with an aim to better supporting subordinate legal documents. The > intent is to enact very little change to the game

Re: DIS: regulated actions question

2020-02-22 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 2:44 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > In R2125/10 (power=3) there is the following: > > A Regulated Action CAN only be performed as described by the > > Rules, and only using the methods explicitly specified in the > > Rules for performing the given

Re: DIS: CFJ 3813 proto-judged FALSE

2020-02-20 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
Gratuitous: Rule 1742 states that a contract must be made by "one or more consenting persons", but it doesn't specify what it is, exactly, that the persons must consent to. It would seem reasonable to interpret this as meaning that the persons must have consented to the creation of a contract with

DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] The Scroll of Agora

2020-02-19 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
H. Herald, I notice that I am listed on the Scroll of Agora under my former names of Zachary Watterson and Tanner L. Swett; I humbly request that these both be updated to Warrigal. —Warrigal, who has settled on the name of Warrigal and does not intend to change it again without good reason

Re: DIS: [proto] Fix zombie auctions

2020-02-18 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:55 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > Perhaps relevant: CFJ 3762 [0], which concluded both that a person CAN > perform a certain action and that that action is IMPOSSIBLE. > > [0]: https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?3762 H. I feel like that

Re: DIS: Proto-contract: the Dragon Corporation (the new TTC Corporation)

2020-02-15 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 5:01 PM AIS523--- via agora-discussion wrote: > On Sat, 2020-02-15 at 16:54 -0500, Tanner Swett via agora-discussion > wrote: > > All other provisions of this contract notwithstanding, this contract > > does not permit any entity to act on behalf o

DIS: Proto-contract: the Dragon Corporation (the new TTC Corporation)

2020-02-15 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
{{{ ## Bylaw 1: Definition This contract is named "the Dragon Corporation". The purpose of the Dragon Corporation is to earn as much money as possible for its shareholders. All other provisions of this contract notwithstanding, this contract does not permit any entity to act on behalf of any

DIS: Proto-contract: the Zombie Market

2020-02-15 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
{{{ This contract is named "the Zombie Market". Any entity CAN become a party to this contract by announcement. Any party to this contract CAN cease to be a party to this contract by announcement, unless e is the master of a zombie and does not own that zombie's Talisman. For each zombie whose

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Re-renumbered Index: Proposals 8322-8341

2020-02-15 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 10:43 Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Did we ever get the results from the blackjack game? I think at least > one person won their hand. > Yowch, it looks like I botched sending the final result message. I've sent that now.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Re-renumbered Index: Proposals 8322-8341

2020-02-15 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 14:12 Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > 8331j Warrigal 1.7 Promissory cleanliness > Conditional: AGAINST if Warrigal votes AGAINST; otherwise PRESENT. I > don't object in principle, but, I mean, you didn't

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer becomes a uroborus

2020-02-08 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
I doubt that this really does anything. Presumably, "one party" means "one person who is a party"; there's no means by which a single person can be multiple parties. On a related note, years ago, it was ruled that "I act on behalf of myself to do X" means exactly the same thing as "I do X." Back

DIS: Re: BUS: Cleaning

2020-02-07 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
Without objection, I intend to go off on a little bit of a tangent. I like how, in many laws and regulations, bullet points are often used to write an entire section as a single, potentially extremely long sentence. To demonstrate, here's 14 CFR 61.23(a) (the requirement for pilots to hold a

DIS: Re: BUS: Cleaning

2020-02-07 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020, 13:32 Aris Merchant via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > I intend, without objection, to clean Rule 591 by inserting a period > at the end of the first three bulleted list items. > > [It looks weird that some of the items have periods and others don't;

Re: DIS: [proto] Retroactive Events: a refactor of ratification

2020-02-03 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 02:10 Aris Merchant via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 10:43 PM Tanner Swett via agora-discussion > wrote: > [...] > > For what it's worth, I like this language (even though it will certainly > &g

Re: DIS: [proto] Retroactive Events: a refactor of ratification

2020-02-02 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020, 01:05 omd via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Hmm... Good point. It shouldn't be. The point was to clarify that > even if the gamestate doesn't have a list of legal fictions, legal > fictions can still exist due to rules (which are themselves

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-02 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 1, 2020, 21:25 James Cook via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > 2. Do you think my "Last Week in Agora" summaries are useful? Any other >comments? So far I've acted unilaterally in writing them, just to >get something started, but I'm open to doing

Re: DIS: [proto] Retroactive Events: a refactor of ratification

2020-02-02 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 1, 2020, 19:41 omd via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > A rule may state or imply that 'X is treated as if it > were Y', but this is considered an attempt to redefine X, > subject to the usual standards for definitions. > What's the

Re: DIS: [Proto] [Possibly Urgent] Ratification Changes

2020-01-31 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 12:21 AM James Cook wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 01:30, Tanner Swett via agora-discussion > wrote: > > then a legal fiction is established that the belief was true at the time of > > the earliest public message indicating the belief; and the gamestat

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Fwd: [Arbitor] CFJ 3796 Assigned to omd

2020-01-31 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
Gratuitous postmortem arguments on CFJ 3796: I don't think it's necessary to bring Rule 217 into this at all; scams of this type simply can't work. I'll explain why I think that. Imagine that the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan enacts an ordinance which states that, the United States Constitution

DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] Thesis Committee for twg

2020-01-31 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 22:37 Alexis Hunt via agora-official < agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > I intend, with 2 Agoran Consent, to award twg the Patent Title of Associate > of Nomic, subject to the conditions that the person performing the award > pursuant to this intent is the Herald, the

Re: DIS: [Proto] [Possibly Urgent] Ratification Changes

2020-01-30 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
I have a half-serious half-proto-proposal: "Implicit Ratification", AI: 3 Repeal all rules relating to ratification. Enact the following rule: { In the course of playing the game, it is inevitable that from time to time, an error in recordkeeping will occur and go unnoticed for such a long time

DIS: Some thoughts on pragmatism and accounting

2020-01-29 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
I've been thinking about what makes Agora difficult to play as compared to other games. Something I've noticed about the current rules is that lots of game actions and effects are all woven together in such a way that if a mistake is made with any piece of it, the mistake can quickly propagate

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Editorial Guidelines

2020-01-29 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 12:31 Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > You kids and your timely fashions. When I was young, we did things as soon > as possible both ways and we liked it! > You know, I *still* think of VVLOP and second-class persons (and

DIS: Re: BUS: Editorial Guidelines

2020-01-27 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 18:43 Jason Cobb via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > [Informal title: "Pronouns"] > > { > > The singular non-gendered pronoun is "e" in the nominative, and "em" in > the accusative. Do not use "they" as a singular pronoun. Do not use > "he/him/his"

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Blackjack, anyone?

2020-01-26 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 3:50 PM Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-business wrote: > Matthew Berlin wrote: > > If you publish a hash of the shoe beforehand, and the entire shoe > > afterwards for verification of the hash, you might get more takers, > > I know next to nothing about blackjack, but that

DIS: Re: BUS: Blackjack, anyone?

2020-01-26 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 3:08 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business wrote: > CFJ: If a player other than Tanner Swett gives Tanner Swett 2 coins in > reference to the quoted pledge, it creates a contract between Tanner Swett and > that player. Not-so-gratuitous arguments: The Rules state that a

Re: DIS: Proto-corporation: the TCC Corporation

2020-01-23 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:06 AM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion wrote: > [...] > > On Jan 23, 2020, at 8:36 PM, Tanner Swett via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > Of course, "TCC" stands for "the TCC Corporation." > > Shouldn’t this be TTC

DIS: Proto-corporation: the TCC Corporation

2020-01-23 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
It's never too late to try to found a company which aspires to take over the world. { ## Bylaw 1: Definition This contract is named "the TCC Corporation". The purpose of the TCC Corporation is to earn as much money as possible for its shareholders. Shares of TCC stock