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The below CFJ is CFJ 3759. I assign it to Aris. On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:19 PM Jason Cobb <jason.e.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Having announced intent to do so, if I CAN do so, I Declare Apathy, > specifying myself. > > No, you didn't miss an intent (well, at least not one that stated what I > was doing). > > > I CFJ: "Jason Cobb has Declared Apathy." > > Evidence: > > "Intent": > > Any public message that I have sent between 4 and 14 days ago, > maybe this one: > > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2019-July/040825.html > > Excerpt from Rule 478 ("Fora"): > > A person "publishes" or "announces" something by sending a > public message. > > Rule 2595 ("Performing a Dependent Action"): > > A rule that purports to allow a person (the performer) to perform > an action by a set of one or more dependent actions identified in > Rule 1728 thereby allows em to perform the action by announcement > if all of the following are true: > > 1. A person (the initiator) published an announcement of intent > that unambiguously, clearly, conspicuously, and without > obfuscation specified the action intended to be taken and the > method(s) to be used; > > 2. The announcement referenced in paragraph (1) of this Rule > unambiguously, clearly, conspicuously, and without obfuscation > states: > > * the value of T, if the action is to be taken with T Notice; > and > > * the value of N, if N is not equal to 1 and the action is to > be taken Without N Objections, With N Support, or With N > Agoran Consent; > > 3. The announcement referenced in paragraph (1) of this Rule was > published: > > * within the 14 days preceding the action, if the action is to > be performed With N Support; > > * between 4 and 14 days preceding the action, if the action is > to be performed Without N Objections, With N Agoran Consent, > or With Notice; or > > * between T and 14 days preceding the action, if the action is > to be performed With T Notice; > > 4. At least one of the following is true: > > * the performer is the initiator; > > * the initiator was authorized to perform the action due to > holding a rule-defined position now held by the performer; > or > > * the initiator is authorized to perform the action, the > action depends on support, the performer has supported the > intent, and the rule authorizing the performance does not > explicitly prohibit supporters from performing it; > > 5. Agora is Satisfied with the announced intent, as defined by > other Rules; and > > 6. The conditions are all met, if any conditions were stated in > the announcement of intent referenced in paragraph (1) of this > Rule. > > The performer SHOULD publish a list of supporters and objectors if > the action is to be taken with N Agoran Consent. > > Excerpt from Rule 2124 ("Agoran Satisfaction"): > > An Objector to an intent to perform an action is an eligible > entity who has publicly posted (and not withdrawn) an objection > to the announcement of that intent. > > Rule 2465 ("Victory by Apathy"): > > A player CAN Declare Apathy without objection, specifying a set > of players. Upon doing so, the specified players win the game. > > Arguments > > The key (broken) wording here is from Rule 478: > > A person "publishes" or "announces" something by sending a > public message. > > This wording does not require that the public message actually > contains the "something" that I am publishing/announcing. This > wording effectively says that, for all X, a person "publishes" or > "announces" X by sending a public message. > > Rule 2465 states that I can Declare Apathy without Objection. By > Rule 2595, I must fulfill certain conditions to do so. I will prove > that I have done so for each one individually: > > 1. "[I must have] published an announcement of intent that > unambiguously, clearly, conspicuously, and without obfuscation > specified the action to be taken and the method(s) to be used". > This invokes the definition of to "publish", which is specified > in Rule 478. Putting parentheses around the object of to > publish, "[I must have] published (an announcement of intent > that unambiguously, clearly, conspicuously, and without > obfuscation specified the action to be taken and the method(s) > to be used)". Going back to my paraphrased definition of to > "publish", the parenthesized phrase takes the place of the > placeholder X, and thus to "publish" such an announcement of > intent is to send a public message. I certainly have done so, an > example one is in evidence. > 2. Since Declaring Apathy is taken without Objection, the N in > "Without N Objections" is 1. Thus, requirement 2 does not > require it state the value of N, and is thus a no-op in this > case. The first alternative is irrelevant. > 3. The announcement referenced in paragraph (1) was indeed > published between 4 and 14 days ago. > 4. Requirement 4 is trivially fulfilled, as I am both the performer > and the initiator. > 5. "Agora is Satisfied with the announced intent, as defined by > other Rules". Rule 2124 requires that there be no Objectors to > my "intent" to Declare Apathy. Rule 2124's definition of > Objector does not use the broken verbiage; so, since no player > has "publicly posted (and not withdrawn) an objection to the > announcement of [the] intent", there are no Objectors. Agora is > thus Satisfied. > 6. There were no conditions stated in my intent to Declare Apathy, > so condition 6 is trivially fulfilled > > I have thus fulfilled all requirements to Declare Apathy and thus, > by Rule 2595, can do so by announcement (well, the definition of "by > announcement" also uses the broken verb to "announce", so I may have > done so anyway). I have made such an announcement in the message in > which I submitted this CFJ. I have thus Declared Apathy. > > > -- > Jason Cobb >
