i favour this

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 6:13 PM omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 3:40 PM Kerim Aydin <ke...@uw.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > CFJ:  An Agoran decision to select the winner of the election has
> > a voting method of AI-Majority.
> >
> > Rule 1950 (Decisions with Adoption Indices, Power=3):
> >         Adoption index is an untracked switch possessed by Agoran
> >         decisions and proposals, whose value is either "none" (default)
> >         [...]
> >         For any Agoran decision with an adoption index, the voting method
> >         is AI-majority.
> >
> > This states outright that Agoran decisions have AIs, and any decision
> with
> > an AI has a voting method of AI-majority.  The fact that the value of
> the AI
> > is "none" doesn't mean the AI is nonexistent.
>
> Gratuitous: Given the way that both this rule and R2162 (Switches)
> gloss over the differences between (a) switches, (b) types of
> switches, (c) instances of switches, and (d) values of instances of
> switches, I think it's no great leap to say that the text is unclear
> for R217 purposes, allowing it to be augmented with factors including
> common sense.  Precisely because all decisions, by definition, have an
> instance of the adoption index switch (especially since that
> definition is in the very same rule), common sense suggests that
> "decision with an adoption index" should be read as something other
> than "decision having an instance of the adoption index switch".
>
> Evidence:
>
> Rule 2162/11 (Power=3)
> Switches
>
>       A type of switch is a property that the rules define as a switch,
>
> (Is it a type of switch or a switch?)
>


-- 
>From R. Lee

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