Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: Dollar Auction

2019-06-19 Thread James Cook
On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 12:06, D. Margaux wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2019, at 2:29 AM, David Seeber wrote: > > > > If this is accepted, { > > > > { I cfj the following: > > > > "Trigon is the winner of the auction" > > > > Argument in favour : > > > > Trigon bid two coins, which is more than

DIS: Extricability and the History of R2517

2019-06-19 Thread James Cook
The history of R2517 ("Conditionals and Extricability" indicates it was repealed in July 2018, and doesn't say anything about it being enacted again after. Was that a mistake? (Of course it's there now because we ratified an SLR earlier this year.) Also, maybe related to the "Dollar Auction"

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
Hmm I just realized that I would have to change more wording in order to allow fines. Jason Cobb On 6/19/19 4:17 PM, Jason Cobb wrote: Here's a proto-proposal. This fleshes out some ideas I mentioned in G.'s "unregulation" thread. This is mostly brought on by the recent issues over regulated

DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
Here's a proto-proposal. This fleshes out some ideas I mentioned in G.'s "unregulation" thread. This is mostly brought on by the recent issues over regulated actions. Sorry if this is a bit massive, but I _think_ it covers all of the necessary consequences of such a change. Outline - A

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Aris Merchant
Okay, I never like being the one to do this, but someone has to. I'm honestly sorry to be telling you this. I like the basic ideas of your proposal, so it is with a heavy heart that I tell you that based on my experience, I believe your proto has a critical flaw caused by the process you used to

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Kerim Aydin
Nice. I think you can shorten this by getting rid of most of the "entities" like so: "An entity is requirement-creating if and only if..." "Regulations are requirement-creating." "Contracts are requirement-creating." Etc. On 6/19/2019 6:08 PM, Jason Cobb wrote: Here it is. This one

DIS: Re: BUS: The ruleset is too long so

2019-06-19 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 20:22 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > I intend with Agoran Consent to trigger Rule 2598, "Side-Game > Suspension". I was suspecting a possible scam here, but the listed rule numbers within rule 2598 do appear to be correct. (It would have been easy to get one of them slightly

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Rebecca
If they've never been useful in the past... I don't see a future use for them. It's true that there's no longer the total sinecure of Regkeepor. Rip the ACORN, you will not be missed. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:46 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I simplified

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
Maybe "binding"? "Contracts are binding", "Regulations are binding". "An entity is binding if and only if..." Jason Cobb On 6/19/19 11:37 PM, Jason Cobb wrote: I would suggest "regulating", but I feel like that could easily get confused with regulations. Jason Cobb On 6/19/19 11:24 PM,

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
I would suggest "regulating", but I feel like that could easily get confused with regulations. Jason Cobb On 6/19/19 11:24 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: I'd personally create a shorter word for "requirement-creating entity". I'm not sure what it should be, but there has to be something. -Aris

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: The ruleset is too long so

2019-06-19 Thread Aris Merchant
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:32 PM ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 20:22 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > > I intend with Agoran Consent to trigger Rule 2598, "Side-Game > > Suspension". > > I was suspecting a possible scam here, but the listed rule numbers > within rule 2598

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Rebecca
what if you repeal regulations and change regulations to mean this On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:38 PM Jason Cobb wrote: > I would suggest "regulating", but I feel like that could easily get > confused with regulations. > > > Jason Cobb > > On 6/19/19 11:24 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > I'd

Re: Fwd: Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
I thought of that, but that looks a lot like the name of an office. Also gets pretty close to "regulations". Jason Cobb On 6/20/19 12:09 AM, Edward Murphy wrote: Aris wrote: I'd personally create a shorter word for "requirement-creating entity". I'm not sure what it should be, but there has

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
Hey Aris, Thank you for your message. It's very helpful to be able to see some of your past experience and the knowledge gained from it. (Sorry, this is awkward. Thanking people by email is hard :P) After reading it, I realized this effectively became a (poorly executed) attempt at unifying

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Rebecca
Basically I like this proposal, which is good (although Oaths should also be binding, right?) but I can't vote for it unless it slashes and burns rules mwa ha ha. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:49 PM Rebecca wrote: > If they've never been useful in the past... I don't see a future use for > them.

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Aris Merchant
That actually makes a lot of sense, logically. The term binding is only used in a few places in the rules, and, at a glance, I don't think any of them would conflict with this. -Aris On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:48 PM Jason Cobb wrote: > > Maybe "binding"? > > "Contracts are binding", "Regulations

DIS: Re: BUS: The ruleset is too long so

2019-06-19 Thread Aris Merchant
I see your point, but I think the phrasing accomplishes the same thing. It says "When this Rule is triggered, the following events happen in order". That makes it pretty clear that the rule is the agent, doesn't it? -Aris On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:00 PM omd wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at

Re: DIS: Future of Regulations (was [proto] regulated actions reform)

2019-06-19 Thread Rebecca
Try making some for the office(s) you hold then! Or make any kind of use of them, they're your thing. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 2:06 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agreed on the ACORN, though I did like the name. > > They're so generic it's just hard to believe

DIS: Re: BUS: Some catch-up actions

2019-06-19 Thread Rebecca
A CFJ did hold that blots can't be expunged, yes. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 2:26 PM Edward Murphy wrote: > I earn 5 coins for publishing the latest ADoP report. > > I expunge my Blot (if I can, which I suspect I can't). > > Notice of Honour: > -1 Murphy (dragging heels on Prime Minister election)

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Aris Merchant
I simplified regulations to the point where they're literally one rule. I'm biased, but I personally think the "it might be useful in future" argument means that keeping them makes sense at this point. -Aris On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:40 PM Jason Cobb wrote: > > That would require rewriting the

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
The purpose of Oaths isn't to define new actions, and the Rules define the crime of Oathbreaking. Jason Cobb On 6/19/19 11:51 PM, Rebecca wrote: Basically I like this proposal, which is good (although Oaths should also be binding, right?) but I can't vote for it unless it slashes and burns

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
Here it is. This one (hopefully) isn't a victim of scope creep. I actually like this one a lot more because it's so much simpler. { Amend Rule 2493 ("Regulations") as follows: Append the following text to the first paragraph: "Regulations are requirement-creating entities." Amend Rule

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Aris Merchant
I'd personally create a shorter word for "requirement-creating entity". I'm not sure what it should be, but there has to be something. -Aris On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:16 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Nice. > > I think you can shorten this by getting rid of most of the "entities" like > so: > >

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
That would require rewriting the tournaments wording, and it's kind of close to the Birthday tournament to be doing that. Jason Cobb On 6/19/19 11:38 PM, Rebecca wrote: what if you repeal regulations and change regulations to mean this On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:38 PM Jason Cobb wrote: I

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Rebecca
I hope we actually have a birthday tournament that works this year though On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:43 PM Rebecca wrote: > tournaments should just be contracts with special powers anyway. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jason Cobb wrote: > >> That would require rewriting the tournaments

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Rebecca
tournaments should just be contracts with special powers anyway. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jason Cobb wrote: > That would require rewriting the tournaments wording, and it's kind of > close to the Birthday tournament to be doing that. > > Jason Cobb > > On 6/19/19 11:38 PM, Rebecca wrote:

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
Okay, I've updated my local draft of it to use "binding". Jason Cobb On 6/19/19 11:52 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: That actually makes a lot of sense, logically. The term binding is only used in a few places in the rules, and, at a glance, I don't think any of them would conflict with this. -Aris

DIS: Future of Regulations (was [proto] regulated actions reform)

2019-06-19 Thread Aris Merchant
Agreed on the ACORN, though I did like the name. They're so generic it's just hard to believe that they won't be useful. I mean, they're basically flexible rule extensions. They span the gap between actions, which can only have specified effect for a single instant, and rules, which can do

Fwd: Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Edward Murphy
Aris wrote: I'd personally create a shorter word for "requirement-creating entity". I'm not sure what it should be, but there has to be something. "Regulators"?

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread omd
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 6:08 PM Jason Cobb wrote: > An action that is regulated by a requirement-creating entity CAN > only be performed as described by the entity, and only using the > methods explicitly specified in the entity for performing the given > action. The entity SHALL

Re: DIS: [proto] Regulated actions reform

2019-06-19 Thread Jason Cobb
Combined with "Contracts CAN regulate actions that are defined in other requirement-creating entities.", doesn't this allow contracts to decide whether rules-defined actions succeed or not? Yes, it appears to. I will replace the contracts sentence with "Contracts CAN permit or forbid

DIS: Re: BUS: Auction bids due! Attn Baron von Vaderham, omd, Rance, R. Lee

2019-06-19 Thread Rebecca
(I argue that although this conditional appears to rest on a future CFJ's interpretation, making it inextricable, there is objectively only one "law" which judges in the Agoran system merely discover, so this conditional should work) On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:31 AM Rebecca wrote: > If I am