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Below is the report for the week of 2021-02-01..07:
# Summary
A busy week.
G.'s Rulebending rule is repealed, but e has a last bit of fun with two
Emergency Regulations --- see minute-by-minute coverage in the
Dictatorship section below. Plus, tune in to the thread "[Speaker] The
Speaker Show 2, Guest: G." for an interview, on another episode of
Cuddlebeam's new show!
It's Read the Ruleset Week. The Rulekeepor kicks off a contest, and
Murphy is clearly reading the Ruleset because e circulates a bunch of
protos.
Some interesting economic tricks this week. Falsifian creates an
"Obstructive" Victory Card/Point pooling contract; and Gaelan simulates
a Victory Card auction with unusual tools.
Also this week: "Bunny" hosts a Guess that Agoran contest; a
hobbit-style birthday; Cuddlebeam takes over another nomic; antics
around finger-pointing (including class-0 pledges and simultaneous
actions).
Our definition of "person" is amended, and more proposals are adopted
or begin their voting periods. Voting for Prime Minister begins. See
"Voting" section below.
As usual, the rules were questioned and reasoned about this week: a
ruling about the definition of "deadline" (relevant to G.'s actions
this week); Agora is hard to destroy; rules can't have IDs assigned;
and sorry, Cuddlebeam, but 0 does't get rounded up to 1.
# Voting
* Proposals 8532-8537 are adopted:
* Change the definition of "person" to be more inclusive. (8535)
* Replace the zombie rules with a simple inactivity mechanism. (8532)
* Dethrone dictator G., and patch some bugs e exploited. (But see the
section "Dictatorship" below.) (8533)
* Remove Summary Judgement. (8536)
* Let people pay to give each other blots. (8537)
* Adjust some rule powers, without significantly changing their
relative powers. (8534)
* Voting begins on Proposals 8538-8540.
* Repeal all emergency regulations. See the "Dictatorship" section
below. (8538)
* Roll back the Bodies of Law framework. (8539)
* Make Extra Votes stronger. (8540)
* Trigon is sad that eir "Proposal Chambers" rule repealed as part
of it.
* H. Ministor nix warns players with the Economy focus to collect
their Coins, because the proposal will eliminate it.
* Voting for Prime Minister begins. The candidates: Aris, ATMunn, nix,
Trigon. Aris suspends eir campaign.
# Miscellaneous
* The Rulekeepor kicks off a Rule Golf contest for Read the Ruleset
Week. Thread: "[Rulekeepor] RTRW Contest"
* G. hosts a "hobbit-style birthday" for emself, in which e gives gifts
of Coins to other players. Pleasant words are exchanged. (The rule
governing birthday gifts is broken.) Thread: "a hobbit-style
birthday"
* Cuddlebeam publishes the second episode of eir Speaker Show: an
interview with G. Thread: "[Speaker] The Speaker Show 2, Guest: G."
* Someone calling emself "Bunny" creates a contest to guess eir
identity. Thread: "[Promise] Guess That Agoran!"
* Cuddlebeam takes over Nommit, a Reddit nomic with little activity,
and connects it to Agora. Thread: "humble agoran farmer collects dead
nomics [Nommit]"
* Cuddlebeam steals the Concentration Stone using the Soul Stone.
Thread: "humble agoran farmer wields the Soul Stone [Attn.
Stonemason]"
* Trigon applies a fix to eir SEAMSTRESS contract. Thread: "@Notary Re:
BUS: @Jason @nix SEAMSTRESS Amendment"
* Aris and Cuddlebeam enter a secret pact. Thread: "Secret Dealings
[attn. Notary]"
* Falsifian publishes another draft revision to the Agoran Press
contract. Thread: "[Contract Proto] Press revisions"
* Jason publishes intent to revoke all Coins from the Lost and Found
Department. Thread: "L&F REvocation".
# Dictatorship
A bit of a scuffle this week.
2021-02-02 22:27:
G. enacts two Emergency Regulations (the First and Second Regulation
of G.ravity), claiming to allow em to extend dependent action
deadlines, and also to allow em to do anything in a document with a
particular hash (the "LAWS OF G.RAVITY"). Thread: "[Emergency] a
fundamental force"
* Jason calls CFJ 3893: is a time at which a without-objection action
becomes resolvable really a "deadline" that an Emergency Regulation
can extend? Murphy judges it FALSE.
* Cuddlebeam publishes a document purporting to be the LAWS of
G.RAVITY, containing the specified hash in its text rather than its
hash actually being that, as a (joking?) attempt to thwart eir
plan.
2021-02-03 01:07:
Rule 2633 (Rulebending) is repealed by Proposal 8533. This removes
G.'s general Rulebending power, but leaves eir Emergency Regulations
in place.
2021-02-03 04:06:
Jason petitions the Prime Minister (ATMunn) to repeal all Emergency
Regulations. (ATmunn responds at 15:16.) Thread: "[petition] Down
with the dictator [attn. Prime Minister]"
2021-02-03 04:50:
Aris creates a contract, "Agorans for a Democratic Society", with the
purpose of removing G.'s dictator power, with membership limited to
those Aris nominates. E nominates Gaelan, Jason, Trigon and ATMunn,
who all join. Thread: "Agorans for a Democratic Society"
2021-02-03 08:28
Aris submits a proposal to repeal the Emergency Regulations. Thread:
"[Proposal] All Good Things Must Come to an End"
2021-02-03 15:16
Prime Minister ATMunn announces intent to repeal all Emergency
Regulations, and also attempts to issue a Cabinet Order of Manifesto
to distribute Aris's proposal.
The cabinet order fails because e didn't specify the proposal's text.
Thread: "[Emergency] [Proposal Distribution] Dictator Dethronement"
2021-02-03 15:22
G. purports to remove ATMunn from the office of Prime Minister, and
then to appoint emself in eir place.
Since the "LAWS OF G.RAVITY" which govern G.'s powers are
unpublished, it is unclear whether this works.
("Prime mininster -> controls Emergency Regs -> Controls PM is too
unfortunate of a tidy logical loop to leave sitting there")
Thread: "[Emergency] Please remain calm (@ADoP)"
2021-02-03 18:44
Aris certifies eir proposal with 2 support.
2021-02-03 21:34
As Promotor, Aris distributes eir own proposal, along with two
others. Thread: "OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8538-8540"
2021-02-06 22:24
H. ADoP Murphy petitions G. as possibly Prime Minister to disclose
the secret document to em, so e can confirm whether the changes to
the office of Prime Minister were effective.
2021-02-07 10:23
ATMunn purports to repeal all Emergency Regulations, acting on eir
earlier-announced intent. It is unclear whether e is still Prime
Minister. Thread: "[Emergency] [Proposal Distribution] Dictator
Dethronement"
* Gaelan calls a CFJ asking whether it worked, and argues ATMunn is
still Prime Minister because G.'s "LAWS of G.RAVITY" aren't
"reasonably available information".
# Proposals, and related events
* Aris submits eir proposal (previously discussed) to "roll back" the
Bodies of Law framework introduced by Alexis. Thread: "[Proposal] The
Great Rollback"
* Finger Pointing to get Justice Cards:
* Cuddlebeam deliberately falsely Points eir Finger at emself, then
points eir finger at emself for doing that. H. Referee JTAC
publishes a detailed analysis, then attempts to resolve both Finger
Pointings simultaneously. Thread: "humble agoran farmer
fingerdances for a good reason [Attn. Referee]"
* nix makes a class-0 pledge (thread: "Weak Pledges") then proposes
to ban them (thread: "[Proposal] Pledge Fix").
* Jason submits then withdraws proposals to make stones more likely to
escape if they're "bored" from not being used. Thread: "[proposal]
Bored stones"
* Jason proposes to reword Rule 478 to make it clear that a player
cannot deliberately take simultaneous actions. Thread: "[proposal]
Anti-Simultaniety Act". Also covered under "Rule questions and
strange behaviour" below.
* G. and Aris point out that Jason's proposal would break some
things, and e withdraws it.
* Murphy circulates several draft proposals for rule clarifications on
the discussion forum, and a few cleaning intents on the business
forum, on February 7.
# Rule questions and strange behaviour
See also: the Dictatorship section
* Aris asks: would the propsal "destroy agora" be stopped by Rule 1698
(Agora is a Nomic) or before it got that far? Thread: "[CFJs] How
Hard is it to Destroy Agora?"; CFJ 3896
* G. publishes a draft judgement finding that Rule 101 or 105 would
stop it first. Thread: "[Arbitor] CFJ 3896 Assigned to G."
* There's no way to assign IDs to rules: Gaelan judges CFJ 3893 FALSE.
Threads: "[Arbitor] CFJ 3893 Assigned to Gaelan", "CFJ 3893 judged
FALSE"
* G. publishes a counter-argument, and is considering a motion to
reconsider.
* Cuddlebeam's scam to take Victory Cards from people by rounding 0 up
to 1 didn't work: Aris judges CFJ 3895 FALSE. Threads: "CFJ 3895
Assigned to Aris", "CFJ 3895 Judged FALSE"
* Birthday gifts are broken. See thread "a hobbit-style birthday".
* Gaelan attempts to "transfer coin to coin". Trigon explains e changed
eir nickname to Coin. Thread: "[@Coin] Transfer"
* H. Referee JTAC attempts to perform two actions simultaneously. Does
it work? Thread: "humble agoran farmer fingerdances for a good reason
[Attn. Referee]" (also covered above under "Submitted proposals, and
related events").
* Jason proposes an "Anti-Simultaniety Act" in response.
* H. Speaker Cuddlebeam creates a contract selling eir Speaker veto for
Victory Points. ("Agora is not satisfied with an intent if the
Speaker has objected to it in the last 48 hours.") The contract
relies on acting-on-behalf to object, and it's questioned whether
that works. Thread: "humble agoran farmer becomes an assassin for
hire via his Speaker powers [Attn. Notary]"
* Is the time at which a Without Objection action becomes resolvable a
deadline? No: Murphy judges CFJ 3898 FALSE. Thread: "[Arbitor] CFJ
3898 Assigned to Murphy"; see Dictatorship section above for context.
# Economics and Victory Points
* Falsifian creates a contract allowing players to lend their Victory
Points to a player forbidden from winning, so that that player's high
Victory Point balance will make it difficult for anyone else to win.
It's also a mechanism to pool Victory Cards to be exchanged for
Victory Points. Threads:
"[Proto Contract] Obstructive Pooling", "[Contract] Obstructive
Pooling"
* Others join; nix deposits a Victory Card; and nix places a buy
order for the contract's currency on the Splat Market. Threads:
"[Contract] Obstructive Pooling", "[Ministor] Monthly Legacy
Grants", "[Splat Market] Order Book".
* Gaelan simulates a Victory Card auction, by creating a promise that
causes em to execute the highest-priced buy order on the Splat Market
contract on a given future date. Thread: "[Promise] Slightly Janky
Victory Card Auction"
* ATMunn's post-economic-reset contract-governed auction ends. Thread:
"Auction results [attn. Aris, Jason, G.]", "Cleaning up auction
contract"
* The total Buoyancy is flipped. A Boatload is now 6.1328. Thread:
"[Treasuror] [Monthly Report] Floating Rate Schedule"
* The (first) February Victory Auction begins. Thread: "[Treasuror]
[Auction] First Victory Auction of February 2021"
* Gaelan destroys some old contracts in the thread "[@Notary] Contract
Cleanup".
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Falsifian
