--- On Tue, 24/8/10, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, omd wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Sean Hunt wrote: > > >> I change my nickname to 'The Robot'. > > >> > > >> -coppro > > > > > > See CFJ 1520. > > > > In this case, the entity with the name "The Robot" will be coppro *at > > the time of the enaction of the rule*. Also: > > > > A document referring to an entity by name refers to the entity > > that had that name when the document first came to include that > > reference, even if the entity's name has since changed. > > Well, that's slightly more interesting, but the Proposal was a document > that predated coppro's name change, so there's a case to be made that > the Proposal's referent transfers to the Rules along with the actual > language. -G.
Possibly relevant here: CFJ 2775, which found that a nickname change wasn't effective unless Agoran players as a whole went along with it. The arguments are rather specific to nicknames in particular, though, rather than names in general, so it might not apply; but if it does, it probably defeats the scam. -- ais523
