On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 May 2013, Sean Hunt wrote:
> > Proposal: No Recordkeeping Burden (AI=1){{{
> > Submitting a promise with an intent other than that the Promise be
> given to another player or to
> > the Tree as a form of binding obligation on the submitter is the
> Crime of Empty Promise.
> >
> > The Crime of Empty Promise is Class 3, except when the promise in
> question has empty or
> > irrelevant text, or one or more conditions which are known to be
> indeterminate and are unrelated
> > to the game state or game play, in which case it is Class 5.
> > }}}
>
> If we have a liquid currency with large granularity (like Yaks), would it
> be worth making a (minor, relatively trivial) cost for making promises?
>
I don't think so. There are reasonably interesting uses for large numbers
of promises (e.g. berks), which is why I deliberately chose a slightly
vague criminal penalty, so as to both hopefully stem these sorts of promise
chains and also making criminal law more interesting by adding crimes where
are difficult to evaluate objectively.
-scshunt
