On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 15:48 -0600, Pavitra wrote: > On Thursday 08 January 2009 06:40:49 Alex Smith wrote: > > The basic ideas of the proposal are to ensure that after a case is > > resolved and finally judged, the controversy about it is > > uncontroversially resolved, with the rules modified to ensure that > > the same controversy does not occur again and the gamestate > > modified to a known value (so that incorrect judgements which > > aren't appealed nevertheless don't cause everyone to continue > > playing on an incorrect gamestate; at the moment, this would > > normally but not always be incidentally fixed by self-ratification, > > but I prefer a less dubious fix). > > This is obviously a scam. The judicial system has recently been > subjected to rampant corruption; giving it actual power over the > gamestate would be catastrophic. It has no direct power over the gamestate, just forces judges to submit proposals. So its only benefit to a scam would be to make it easier for judges to disguise scammy proposals as something legitimate; all the proposals would still be /voted/ on in the normal manner.
This is actually an attempt to reduce the problems that judicial corruption can cause. A corrupt judge shouldn't be able to cause as much damage in the new system. > > Also, you forgot (?) to specify that HIDDEN is neither positive nor > negative. Yes, an oversight. > > Finally: > * change the rules so that if substantially similar > circumstances to the circumstances leading to the case being > called occur in the future, the analogous statement would be > uncontroversially true (if the judgement was positive) or > uncontroversially false (if the judgement was negative), and > > (Otherwise it could be interpreted as giving the judge the choice of > true or false in the case of negative judgements. And we wouldn't > want that, now would we?) We may as well do, although a judge submitting a proposal that was directly opposite to their judgement would certainly raise eyebrows, and probably cause the proposal to fail. -- ais523
