The following protoproposal attempts to clarify the performance and
regulation of actions and encodes in law the previous judicial
decision and former law that an index of Unanimity is greater than any
other index.
It modifies rule 101 (Agoran Rights and Privileges) and rule 1503
(Rules Violations, which becomes Agoran Duties) in an attempt to
strengthen Agoran law's recognition of its contractual nature. I also
added the right of persons who are players to propose rule changes to
rule 101.
I think this proto is nearly ready to submit. I would appreciate any
constructive feedback.
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Protoproposal h0134 (AI=3)
Clarify actions
Amend rule 101 (Agoran Rights and Privileges) to read:
Persons have certain rights and privileges. Those rights which
are enumerated in the rules or recognized by the Agoran courts
may not be abridged, reduced, limited, or remove by Agoran law,
and any provision of an otherwise binding agreement which would
do so is unenforceable. Those privileges which are enumerated
in the rules or recognized by the Agoran courts are assumed to
exist in the absence of an explicit, binding agreement to the
contrary. This rule takes precedence over all other rules.
The failure of the rules to enumerate a right or privilege does
not by itself imply that that right or privilege does not exist.
Merely possessing a right does not by itself provide a mechanism
by which the right can be exercised. However, the rules must
provide mechanisms by which the following rights can be
exercised.
(a) Each person has the right to call for judgement on a
statement with the expectation that the truth of the
statement will be decided in a reasonable amount of time.
(b) Each person has the right to call for the appeal of any
judgement and the right to initiate an appeal on a
sentencing or judicial order binding em.
(c) Each person has the right to refuse to become party to a
binding agreement. The absence of a person's explicit
consent shall be considered a refusal.
(d) Each person has the right not to be bound by an agreement or
an amendment to an agreement which e has not had a
reasonable opportunity to review.
(e) Each person has the right not to be penalized more than once
for a single action or inaction. Forcible deregistration is
not a penalty.
(f) Each person who is a player has the right to perform
unregulated actions.
(g) Each person who is a player has the right to participate in
the fora.
(h) Each person who is a player has the right to propose changes
to the rules.
(i) Each person who is a player has the right to deregister.
Each person has the privilege of doing what e wilt.
Please treat Agora right good forever.
Change the title of rule 1503 (Rules Violations) to "Agoran Duties".
Amend rule 1503 to read:
The rules form a binding agreement to which all players are
parties. When a person becomes a player, e agrees to be bound
by the rules, fulfilling the duties required of em by the rules
and in return being granted the rights guaranteed by the rules.
An actual or alleged rule violation is equivalent to an actual
or alleged violation of a binding agreement to be bound by the
rule in question.
The proposal, fora, and registration processes shall, prima
facie, be considered to be protective of a Player's rights and
privileges with respect to making and changing the agreement to
be bound by the rules.
Other rules may further differentiate the treatment of rules
violations from the treatment of violations of other types of
agreements.
Amend rule 2125 (Regulation Regulations) to read:
An action is regulated if one of the following conditions holds:
(a) the action is prohibited;
(b) the rules indicated that the action may be performed if
certain conditions are satisfied;
(c) the action would, as part of its effect, modify information
for which some player is required to be a recordkeepor;
(d) the action would, as part of its effect, make it impossible
to make arbitrary modifications to the rules by any
combinations of actions by players; or
(e) the courts have held that the action is regulated, and the
most recent such finding has not been overturned.
Any other action is unregulated.
Enact a rule with power 3, titled "Performance of actions" and
reading:
The rules may assign one or more mechanisms (the Means) to an
action (the End). Each action is a Means for itself. Whenever
a rule states that a person performs, or can perform, one action
by performing another action, it shall be interpreted as
assigning the latter action as a Means to the former action.
Ends and their Means shall be considered equivalent in the
following technical sense. Whenever a person performs an action
which is a Means to some End, e shall be considered to have
performed the End, even if the End could not naturally be
performed. If a person somehow would simultaneously peform
multiple Means with the same End, e shall be considered to have
thereby performed the End only once. A person cannot perform an
End unless there is at least one Means to that End which e can
naturally perform.
A player "publishes" or "announces" something by sending an
appropriate message to a public forum. A player performs an
action "by announcement" by announcing that e performs it. A
player performs an action "by private message" to some player by
sending an appropriate private message to the specified player.
Any action performed by sending a message is performed at the
time date-stampted on that message.
Amend rule 478 (Fora) by replacing the text reading:
A message is public if and only if it is sent via a public forum
or is sent to all players and contains a clear designation of
intent to be public. A player "publishes" or "announces"
something by sending a public message.
A player performs an action "by announcement" by announcing that
e performs it. A player performs an action "by private message"
to some player by sending an appropriate private message to the
specified player. Any action performed by sending a message is
performed at the time date-stamped on that message.
with text reading:
A message is public if and only if it is sent via a public forum
or is sent to all players and contains a clear designation of
intent to be public.
Enact a rule, titled "The Orderly Comparison of Threats", reading:
The Order of the Evil Eye, or more briefly the Order, is a total
order consisting of all nonnegative real numbers in their
standard mathematical order together with a special element
called Unanimity, which is strictly greater than any other
element of the Order.
Whenever the rules indicate that two indices are to be compared,
they shall be compared as though they were members of the Order.
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