DIS: Re: BUS: How to possibly win by paradox without really trying

2013-05-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 20 May 2013, omd wrote: > I submit a promise with title "???", text "???", and conditions for > author destruction "true", transfer it to myself, and cash it. Fails because: If a promise is possessed by the Tree, any player except the promise's author...

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Subjective Criminology

2013-05-20 Thread Tanner Swett
On May 19, 2013, at 9:58 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> 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 in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: All of the attempts to cash a promise in this message fail.

2013-05-20 Thread Tanner Swett
On May 20, 2013, at 5:32 PM, omd wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Tanner Swett wrote: >> I submit a promise, titled "Gold Z", with empty text, and with condition for >> cashing "The sum of all numbers 2^n such that I have a promise titled 'Gold >> 2^n' is an even number greater than 2 t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: All of the attempts to cash a promise in this message fail.

2013-05-20 Thread Elliott Hird
On 20 May 2013 22:32, omd wrote: > It might make an interesting CFJ whether the Miller-Rabin test is thus > sufficient I think we decide CFJs based on much weaker things.

DIS: Re: BUS: All of the attempts to cash a promise in this message fail.

2013-05-20 Thread omd
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Tanner Swett wrote: > I submit a promise, titled "Gold Z", with empty text, and with condition for > cashing "The sum of all numbers 2^n such that I have a promise titled 'Gold > 2^n' is an even number greater than 2 that is not the sum of two prime > numbers."

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Trade offers

2013-05-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 20 May 2013, Tanner Swett wrote: > I submit a proposal, titled "Promises do an acceptable job of handling this, > but a specialized mechanism would probably be more convenient and less > error-prone": > > Create a rule, titled "Trade Offers": > > A person (the Seller) CAN create