Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 7:37 PM, Alex Smith wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 19:35 -0400, Fool wrote: Let's ask if you are a player (c). If I de-registered you, you are NOT a player (b -> ~c). But (b -> ~c) -> (~~b -> ~c). So if it was NOT IMPOSSIBLE for me to de-register you, you

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7530-7547

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 7:33 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: I assume Assessor. Voting results for Proposals 7530-7547: COE: By Rule 1950, the eligible voting entities are set at the _distribution_ of the proposal. I am not sure whether your scam succeeds (well, I doubt it

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:46 PM, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Fool wrote: How's that. Why is it (~(a->b) -> ~a) and not (a -> (a->b)) ? IMPOSSIBLE except as allowed ~(allowed) -> ~a It's allowed if a -> b, therefore ~(a -> b) -> ~a. So, you a

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:59 PM, Alex Smith wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 18:44 -0400, Fool wrote: Uh.. ok. What's the trophy and what's the time limit for getting it? Anything permanent that sticks around in the gamestate. Typical dictatorship trophies include my Patent Title of H., the Tow

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:32 PM, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Alex Smith wrote: How do you define "iff" (in the rules) in the absence of the law of excluded middle? It may not be the same way that the rules themselves do. Ah, yes. That makes sense. ((a -> b)<-> a) -> b holds intuitio

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:27 PM, Alex Smith wrote: Where does a week or more come from? It's the length of time to adopt a proposal; most such scams normally involved preventing everyone else from voting for long enough to pass a dictatorship proposal. I passed a rule giving me immediate amendment powe

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:20 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: The sentences in question are not directly self-referential or even mutually-referential. This is more of a Curry-flavoured confused deputy, with rule 2337 as the deputy. It says that the author can destroy a promise

DIS: Re: BUS: May as well REALLY settle this

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:16 PM, Alex Smith wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 16:26 -0400, Fool wrote: I cash the promise titled "!!!" [Text: "!!!". Cashing condition: "This promise has existed for 2 months." It was created May 21.] CoE: Which two months has it existed for?

Re: DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 6:15 PM, Alex Smith wrote: You forgot the Gerontocracy. The "with notice" is modified by the Elder objections, thus breaking your loop. I did not. Gerontocracy was lifted by proposal 7519. Also, Agora generally denies the law of the excluded middle It's constructive and does n

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Stuff

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 5:48 PM, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Fool wrote: In the name of Davy I, Queen of Agora Nomic, CAT 24, and her other realms, I cause the new rule created by proposal 7537 to amend itself to read: Hmm... it is interesting how Rule 101 (iv) might be interpreted in

DIS: Re: BUS: May as well REALLY settle this

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
On 29/07/2013 5:30 PM, omd wrote: I suppose it's appropriate to say that paraconsistent logic isn't an appropriate answer; unless the rules use language that expect us to work indirectly to determine the possibility of an action, it's necessary to go all the way to intuitionistic logic. I am, a

DIS: Gratuitous arguments for lawyers

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
I know some of you here advocate a less logicist and more legalist approach, and I guess this is the bit where you "watch the logicians sweat" as Peter Suber would have it. Well, the paradox I present to you is: how should a legalist rule in a game which has a tradition of "absurd literalism"?

DIS: Gratuitous arguments for Agorans

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
As I've been told in the context of Gerontocracy (which, BTW, was lifted by proposal 7519), the normal Agoran approach is to have fun with the unexpected new rules, rather than complain about them. But, as I understand, even though dictatorship isn't unprecedented around here, it tends to be as

DIS: Gratuitous arguments for logicians

2013-07-29 Thread Fool
Curry's paradox hasn't gotten much attention in Agora. It came up in discussion a couple of times, and in terms of usage in-game, all I found was someone CFJing a free-floating sentence "If this sentence is true, then I win." That was about 10 years ago. Well, this isn't a free-floating sent

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] Docket

2013-07-28 Thread Fool
On 28/07/2013 10:52 PM, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: Naughtiness (Rule 2356) --- PVN: 1 Unvirtuous: Fool By the way, naughtiness no longer exists.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposals

2013-07-20 Thread Fool
On 20/07/2013 3:30 PM, omd wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Fool wrote: Create a Power-2 Rule titled "Auctions": Don't we already have an auction rule? Can we fix it or get rid of it? It was repealed. Just looked, R2393 is in the SLR posted 12 hours ago. Do we wa

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposals

2013-07-20 Thread Fool
Create a Power-2 Rule titled "Auctions": Don't we already have an auction rule? Can we fix it or get rid of it? When in effect, unless a fine for that case has already been satisfied, the ninny SHALL pay a cost of that amount of currency to satisfy the fine

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2013-07-20 Thread Fool
On 20/07/2013 1:21 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: In theory, you can still, also, publish a body of text and say " I agree to this text, the first person to vote FOR proposal 5000 thereby consents to join and make this an agreement". I don't get it. Without R101 iii, the above would do what? My sense

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2013-07-20 Thread Fool
On 19/07/2013 10:47 PM, James Beirne wrote: >If the rules were to change to allow players to be bound to a constitution they did not agree to, why would that be considered an "agreement"? If two people agreed to that party's constitution it would be an agreement, just not one that all bound pla

DIS: Re: BUS: meh

2013-07-20 Thread Fool
On 20/07/2013 12:56 PM, omd wrote: When a sentence of TIME OUT has been in effect continuously for one week, the ninny becomes inactive, and eir stasis timer increases by the specified amount. I think we could also be clearer about when a sentence is in effect. At the mome

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: some minor actions

2013-07-19 Thread Fool
On 19/07/2013 12:29 PM, Tanner Swett wrote: Most people are capable of playing pickleball, eating paczkis, taking pictures of Venus, making lasagna, tearing newspapers into tiny pieces, and shoplifting, but these things are not essential parts of human life. If you were prohibited from doing one

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2013-07-19 Thread Fool
On 19/07/2013 9:01 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: I don't even see the point of iii. I realise there's history here, but the rules don't define "agreements" anymore, so what does this do? As there is no official definition, we use a commo

DIS: Re: BUS: Ruling on CFJ 3346

2013-07-18 Thread Fool
On 18/07/2013 12:04 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: Amend Rule 2395 (Government Waste) by appending the following text: This office becomes Assumed whenever it is held by the holder of another elected office. -- Rev

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal

2013-07-18 Thread Fool
On 18/07/2013 12:17 AM, omd wrote: Proposal: Down with bromides (AI=3) Amend Rule 101 to read: Please treat Agora right good forever. [ i. is meaningless. ii. was only considered to have an effect once, and it probably shouldn't have been judged that way. It is unlikely to ever be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ Rule 2394

2013-07-11 Thread Fool
On 09/07/2013 4:34 PM, omd wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Lindar Greenwood wrote: I announce a CFJ on the following text: { Announcing in Agora-Business the creation of a promise that, upon being cashed, causes the player cashing said promise to break a rule, does not cause the creato

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Returning Officer] General Election

2013-07-09 Thread Fool
On 09/07/2013 4:30 PM, omd wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:22 PM, omd wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: I vote for omd. I vote for myself. Campaign Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBW4mPzv6E Look at this link, around 3:43. You'll see that the Best Party pro

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3362 assigned to G.

2013-07-09 Thread Fool
On 09/07/2013 5:46 AM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Fool wrote: Generally I don't think it's true the "meta-agreement" is subject to amendment by even "true" nomic. There are still limits. What if we made Agora

DIS: Re: BUS: Assurance

2013-07-08 Thread Fool
On 08/07/2013 4:06 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: I submit the following promise: Text { I taunt the Police, specifying 5. } Conditions for cashing { - I previously voted on an Agoran Decision as a direct result of a promise being cashed. - The voting period ended and my vote was not the same (after e

DIS: Proposals 7493-7496

2013-07-08 Thread Fool
On 08/07/2013 8:41 PM, omd wrote: x7493 10 O D FoolComplete Rubbish And it's fair that this rejected. It was: {{ Fool CAN satisfy the Victory Condition of Complete Rubbish by announcement, if he has not already done so. Fool CAN cause this rule to repeal itself by announc

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ambassadorial Actions

2013-07-08 Thread Fool
On 04/07/2013 8:12 PM, Charles Walker wrote: On 5 July 2013 01:09, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: I support, although I'd rather use Over/Finished, whichever was passed by proposal. Neither has passed yet; ask me again when one has. -- Walker Just passed. I prefer Over, because it's not like we

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3362 assigned to G.

2013-07-08 Thread Fool
On 08/07/2013 9:21 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: And when you think about it, no Nomic compels its own rule following. All Nomics are implicitly mediated by something, and this is not subject to amendment. Usually this is by its players directly, but there are other possibilities. But they *are* subj

Re: DIS: (no subject)

2013-07-07 Thread Fool
On 07/07/2013 8:46 PM, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Steven Gardner wrote: Class-3 Hazing, Roujo? Not usually. Class-1 is already a bit much for me. ~ Roujo Besides pantyhose are so uncomfortable in the summer.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Gerontocracy Fix

2013-07-03 Thread Fool
On 03/07/2013 10:07 PM, Charles Walker wrote: On 4 July 2013 03:01, omd wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Charles Walker wrote: Amend Rule 2410 (Parties) by replacing "Party members SHALL obey their party's constitution." with "Party members SHALL obey their party's constitution, except

DIS: Re: OFF: [Returning Officor] Era of Boredom

2013-07-01 Thread Fool
On 01/07/2013 4:55 PM, Charles Walker wrote: RETURNING OFFICOR'S PARTY REPORT There are no parties; all players are Independent. -- Walker This intent is not stale yet... http://www.mail-archive.com/agora-business@agoranomic.org/msg25052.html Support my motion to found the Serious party!

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-07-01 Thread Fool
On 01/07/2013 2:54 AM, Chuck Carroll wrote: I also have an idea or two about how a group of players could get around the requirement of unanimity for making a rule mutable against a single player determined to prevent all such transmutations. The majority can kick the minority out of the game,

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-06-30 Thread Fool
On 01/07/2013 12:35 AM, Chuck Carroll wrote: Like others have mentioned, I like the idea of a Nomic with a defined endpoint (being well aware, of course, that there is no guarantee that the endpoint will remain unchanged) in which I can most likely play for just a few weeks. But there was a gua

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-06-30 Thread Fool
On 30/06/2013 5:41 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: Of course, Blob's version of "innocuous" wasn't... so we sure didn't have a commanding lead going into the last vote. At the end we knew if everyone in the game voted and spent their points on voting we'd not get through, but just shrugged, decided not t

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador-at-Large] News from Foreign Nations

2013-06-30 Thread Fool
On 30/06/2013 4:35 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: Also, the history does not reflect Toy Nomic Same as Ambassador Abuse, only more so. Never existed.

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-06-30 Thread Fool
On 30/06/2013 3:47 PM, Charles Walker wrote: Well, I don't particularly care about Win by Paradox (it depends if the game ends when someone wins as to whether I would repeal it) I realise a "win" is mostly cosmetic in Agora, but ordinarily it would end the game. Win by paradox would have ende

DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Voting Results for Proposals 7473-7481

2013-06-30 Thread Fool
On 29/06/2013 4:15 PM, omd wrote: Amend Rule 2337 (Promises) by appending: A persistent promise is one whose conditions for destruction on cashing is {false}. A revocable promise is one whose set of conditions for author destruction is {true}. The rest of that rule is phr

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-06-30 Thread Fool
he game started, and likely are minority opinions. Credit to Aaron Goldfein not only for rounding up the old-timers, but also for coming up with the idea for the game in the first place, about two months ago. Charles Walker posted a wake-up two weeks ago, reminding us that time was ticking. I was

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-06-30 Thread Fool
On 29/06/2013 5:02 PM, omd wrote: Okay, the big question, 364. It affects more than the final scores, it affects whether the surviving player with the most points won, or whether the old-timers jointly won. (_Surviving_ player, if that's where you're going with this... proposal 363 failed. No mat

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-06-29 Thread Fool
On 29/06/2013 1:16 PM, com...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 29, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Fool wrote: Good day Agorans, Ah... one thing. Didn't we have a ruling that proposals do not take effect until the voting results are announced? Since, unless I'm mixing up time zones on my phone, thi

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-06-29 Thread Fool
On 29/06/2013 9:18 AM, Elliott Hird wrote: On 29 June 2013 13:37, Fool wrote: Alex Hunt what SMITH! I MEANT SMITH! ARGH! sorry Alex. :(

DIS: Agora XX: 13th and final report

2013-06-29 Thread Fool
Good day Agorans, A minor correction to the previous report: "woggle" (Alex Hunt, ais523 in Agora, who chose someone else's nickname here as part of a counter-scam unrelated to this game) actually got 120 points by Goethe's proposals 358-360. There are three CFJs pending. By rules 213 and

Re: DIS: Last minute voting

2013-06-29 Thread Fool
On 29/06/2013 8:05 AM, Elliott Hird wrote: I also spend as many points as I can to purchase extra votes against 364. And cast those votes. I believe you're at least a minute too late. -Dan

Re: DIS: Ambassador Abuse

2013-06-28 Thread Fool
On 28/06/2013 8:40 PM, Sgeo wrote: I just noticed a contradiction in Ambassador Abuse's original rules, between 3 and 7. (Rule 7 is more specific, supercedes.) Ambassador Abuse does not, and never has had, a CfJ mechanism. Players of AA must resolve their differences by consensus. So, if

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-28 Thread Fool
On 28/06/2013 7:43 PM, Steven Gardner wrote: Firstly, I think you're missing the point about injustice, Dan. I could be, but am I really? The right protects the accused against unjust attaint by the gov't. In the case before us, legislator and victim are the same. He was hoist by his own pet

Re: DIS: Agora XX: Call for Judgement

2013-06-28 Thread Fool
not in effect when Blob proposed P346. -- Steve Gardner via mobile Precedent was used for rule 304. Previous CFJ: Original Message Subject: Re: BUS: Agora XX: 1st report: Vigintennial Blitz game begins Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:53:55 -0400 From: Fool To: agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 12th report

2013-06-28 Thread Fool
On 28/06/2013 1:07 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: I call for judgement on the following: what is above described as proposal 364 is actually a proposal. Argument: I find the notion of this proposal to be extremely humiliating. It unfairly awards the game to old-timers, despite the hard work of the mo

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 12th report

2013-06-28 Thread Fool
On 28/06/2013 9:58 AM, Alexander Smith wrote: It looks like I was too early with my last attempts to vote, so I again attempt to vote: 363 FOR 364 FOR It was not too early, voting started when I distributed, not when I posted the report. And, you voted against before. H. Speaker Fool, I

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-28 Thread Fool
On 28/06/2013 9:42 AM, Steven Gardner wrote: The point of a ban on retroactive application of a rule, especially one which, like R345, criminalises a certain action, is to avoid a particularly galling kind of injustice: namely, that people do things which they rightly believe at the time are leg

Re: BUS: Re: Agora XX: Re: DIS: Ambassador Abuse

2013-06-28 Thread Fool
On 28/06/2013 10:55 AM, Benjamin Schultz wrote: Gratuitous argument: A-D is Not A Public Forum, and is not subject to the strictness of a PF. As long as someone makes it clear *each time* that their potentially confusing nickname is not going to confuse Agora play, it's okay. (cough cough)

DIS: Agora XX: Proposals 363-364

2013-06-28 Thread Fool
Here are the two proposals for what could be this final distribution. You can still submit proposals, and if 363 passes and 364 fails, I'll make another distribution before we go to ludicrous speed. Voting on 348-362 is still open for another hour and a half. Full report then. -Dan 363 (omd)

Re: DIS: Agora XX CORRECTION: Proposal 344 failed.

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 9:38 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: I call for judgement on the statement "a player can change eir vote." Nothing in the rules support the notion that this is possible, or allow for removing of votes. Instead, the rules claim each player gets a single vote. Walker's initial vote should

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to omd

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 9:38 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: I call for judgement on the statement "a player can change eir vote." My 8-sided virtual die comes up omd You have 24 hours. -Dan Nothing in the rules support the notion that this is possible, or allow for removing of votes. Instead, the rule

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 9:27 PM, Malcolm Ryan wrote: Aand we return to the old Platonic vs Pragmatic debate. Blob (staying low) Yeah, Platonic, you lose. Pragmatic, I read you some of my poetry first. RESISTANCE IS USELESS. -Dan

Re: DIS: XX: Agora Infinity

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 9:45 AM, omd wrote: The cycle length is initially 24 hours. On 30 June 2013, 00:00:00 +1200, and thereafter once the cycle length has passed since the last reduction, the cycle length is reduced to half of its previous value. On 31 June 2013, 00:00:00 +1200, the game ends. Maybe

DIS: Agora XX: Last call for proposals, perhaps.

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
omd's Agora Infinity is the only proposal so far for the next round. And unless that proposal passes, next round is the last one. Even if it does pass, next round is the last round at this ridiculous speed. The rounds after that go to ludicruous speed... ("What's the matter Colonel Sanders? Ch

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 8:55 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: Of course, this raises the age old question of whether, if e does an "illegal" thing, whether it actually fails (since we haven't differentiated IMPOSSIBLE from ILLEGAL here at all...) Okay, for the sake of argument: then that also applies to all play

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 8:37 PM, Steven Gardner wrote: The argument (setting aside the retroactivity claim) is that Blob was immediately required to forfeit. Not doing so would to be sure be violation of the Rules, but it still can't happen unless Blob sends a message say that e forfeits. Okay, for the s

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 8:43 PM, Steven Gardner wrote: On 28 June 2013 10:36, Fool mailto:fool1...@gmail.com>> wrote: In this case, the effect was your forfeiture (or requirement to forfeit). It was based on events that occurred prior, but the effect was not retroactive. I disagree

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 8:15 PM, Malcolm Ryan wrote: I call for judgement on the following statement. "Blob does not have to forfeit under rule 345." Reasoning: Rule 345 says "If a player proposes a rule change that is not adopted..." I made proposal 346 BEFORE this rule came into effect. Rule 108 forb

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 8:19 PM, Malcolm Ryan wrote: I call for judgment on the following statement: "At the 12:16am GMT on June 28 2013, Blob had not forfeited." Reasoning: The rules make it clear that forfeiting is a voluntary player action. Rule 345 says a player "must" forfeit. It does not say that

DIS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 3351 assigned to G. Have fun with this one. =P

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 2:22 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: The emphasis is: A JUDGEMENT HAS NO FORCE TO ACTUALLY COMPEL A RESULT. Unless it comes up UNDECIDABLE. Then you win!

Re: DIS: Agora XX: proposal

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
On 27/06/2013 5:24 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: On 27 June 2013 23:23, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: On 26 June 2013 05:33, Malcolm Ryan wrote: Let's make this interesting. I propose that a rule be enacted reading: "If a player proposes a rule change which is not adopted at the end of its voting pe

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to FSX

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
Goethe: > > CFJ: Blob has forfeited. > 331 makes me assign it randomly to me or one of the people who voted on the last proposal, excluding the caller. The last proposal was 347, on which 9 players voted. Goethe was one of them. So was Blob. (hmm) I'll go ahead and roll a virtual 8-sided d

DIS: Agora XX CORRECTION: Proposal 344 failed.

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
Argh ** Yes, Chuck did privately vote against 344. And no, Walker did vote against, he changed his public for to a private against about 9 hours later. So it's actually 4:4, fail, we're back to rule 343. Yally did not get 10 points for proposing 344. Walker, Goethe, and omd did not

DIS: Agora XX: 11th report

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
Good day Agorans, A correction from last report brought to my attention by Yally. It does involve the disputed interpretation of the order of events when the voting on multiple proposals closes "simultaneously". I am going with the interpretation that they pass sequentially in order I number

DIS: Agora XX: Chicken??

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
Okay, so there's a proposal pending (345) which, if it passes, means that if a proposal fails, the proposer forfeits. And suddenly there are no proposals for me to distribute! Hey, if you're not in the lead, and the rules don't change, you're going to lose the game anyway. (And maybe Chuck has

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Michael

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
-- From: agora-discussion [mailto:agora-discussion-boun...@agoranomic.org] On Behalf Of Fool Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:10 PM To: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org Subject: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Walker On 26/06/2013 10:09 AM, games...@chuckcarroll.org wrote: I invoke judgement on the

Re: DIS: Agora XX: 10th report

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 9:16 PM, Aaron Goldfein wrote: Shouldn't I have some points, at the very least from voting against a passing proposal here? The thing is, that rule (302) was amended (332), and then rule 305 prevents it from assigning points based on votes. Still, it depends on what "at the sam

Re: DIS: Endgame XX

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 6:42 PM, Flameshadowxeroshin wrote: For. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: FOR. =) ~ Roujo On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: I propose the following rule: At 12:00 July 1 2013 UTC+1200, Agora XX ends and the player with the most poin

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 4:30 PM, omd wrote: On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, wrote: As for any ordering of actions occuring in the same message, that's tradition (possibly law?) in Agora itself, but I don't know whether Agoran tradition carries over to Agora XX. By the way, I'm not saying

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on forfeiture

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 3:14 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: CFJ: a player who forfeits the game can still vote and/or transfer points. ("Forfeiture" isn't strictly defined. Does it mean completely drop out, points zeroed, cease to be defined as a player? Or just give up on a chance to win but remain a player,

Re: DIS: Agora XX: Proposal 344-347

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 12:09 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I vote for 345-347 (think I already voted on 345) 344 I'll defer to speaker's opinion on ongoing-ness in future. -Goethe :VETO:

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to omd

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 3:14 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: CFJ: a player who forfeits the game can still vote and/or transfer points. By 331, I must randomly select either myself or a voter on 341 (Goethe was not one of them). My virtual 9-sided die comes up omd You have 24 hours. -Dan ("Forfeit

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Steve

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
Why not! I call for judgement on: "Roujo has cast valid votes on proposals by means of the message quoted below." On 26/06/2013 10:12 AM, Jonathan Rouillard wrote: I also vote FOR all current proposals, except those who currently have a majority of AGAINST votes - I vote AGAINST on those.

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Walker

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 10:09 AM, games...@chuckcarroll.org wrote: I invoke judgement on the following statement: The selection of a Judge for this statement is a move whose legality cannot be determined with finality. By rule 331, I must randomly select from myself or those who voted on the last propos

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I was blocking on the term "logician", that's a better choice. (Just had a flashback to the day in grad school when I became a committed Bayesian, maybe I was channeling). Yeah man, you can get flashbacks from that sort of thing. Or so I've heard, I

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 8:20 AM, omd wrote: Although there are no appeals, I do strenuously object to this judgement. The default assumption is the default because it is usually accurate. Unless you believe that my brother and I are not in control of the theagoranundead Gmail account, something which I c

DIS: Agora XX: player list

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
As required by the new rule 340. -Dan Speaker: Fool (Daniel Méhkeri ) Voters in order of registration: June 18: 1. omd () 2. FSX () 3. Walker (Charles Walker ) 4. Chuck (Chuck Carroll ) 5. ehird (Elliott Hird ) June 20: 6. Yally (Aaron Goldfein ) June 21: 7. Michael (Michael

DIS: Agora XX: 10th report

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
Good day Agorans, Since last report, voting on proposals 331-341 closed. Proposal 331 (omd) passed 5:1 (Walker, Chuck, omd, Yally, and ehird FOR; Steve AGAINST). This amends rule 214 so that Judges are selected randomly from among the Speaker and active players. omd receives 10 points and S

DIS: Agora XX: Proposal 344-347

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
[Missed one...] Here I'll just number and repeat the four new proposals that were made. You can vote by replying to this message, privately if you like. I'll send out a full report shortly. -Dan 344 (Yally): Amend Rule 326 to read: Each year on June 30th at 00:04:30 UTC +1200 , the game shal

DIS: Agora XX: Proposal 344-346

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
Here I'll just number and repeat the three new proposals that were made. You can vote by replying to this message, privately if you like. I'll send out a full report shortly. -Dan 344 (Yally): Amend Rule 326 to read: Each year on June 30th at 00:04:30 UTC +1200 , the game shall end, and the V

Re: DIS: (no subject)

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
On 25/06/2013 8:07 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: The fact that it was known to exist, but secretive, generated a surprising amount of paranoia in some non-member Agorans. There were a couple genuine witch hunts looking for members, for a short time Agora was genuinely like a game of werewolf. You mea

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
sort of Bayesian reasoning. But let me put my Bayesian hat on anyway. For this to work I would have to put 100% credence in omd's statement and then think that there was nothing to epistemically distinguish the two branches. This is far from the case. --Dan the non-Bayesian Fool.

DIS: Agora XX: proposals 342-343

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
Here I'll just number and repeat the two new proposals. Voting closes in 24 hours. Voting on 331-341 closes in about 11 hours. -Dan 342 (Chuck): I propose that rule 311 be amended by changing the text which reads “the Voter with the most points shall win. In case of a tie, all such Voters shall

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Star cleanups

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
On 24/06/2013 4:36 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:44 PM, omd wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Sean Hunt wrote: Amend Rule 2409 (Star Chamber) inserting "- publish the list of codes (but not the corresponding options)" as the second item in the bulleted list. [Allows the

DIS: Agora XX: Player list with email addresses.

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
On 25/06/2013 8:15 AM, Steven Gardner wrote: Either 'Flameshadowxeroshin' or 'FSX' will serve as a name, IMO. Ah. Well in that case... Speaker: Fool (Daniel Méhkeri ) Voters in order of registration: June 18: 1. omd () 2. FSX () 3. Walker (Charles Walker ) 4.

DIS: Agora XX: 9th report

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
Good day Agorans, Since last report, voting closed on proposals 326-330 closed. Proposal 326 (Chuck) passed 5:0 with Walker, Michael, Chuck, omd, and Steve voting FOR. This amends 311, formerly 112, removing "there is no other way to win". Chuck gets 10 points by rule 302. Proposal 327 (Wa

Re: DIS: Agora XX: Proposal

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
Hi FSX, Well, since you're voting for, would it be fair to ask for your name? -Dan On 25/06/2013 1:24 AM, Flameshadowxeroshin wrote: I vote for this proposal. On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Steven Gardner wrote: I vote for this Proposal. On 25 June 2013 00:10, Steven Gardner wrote:

Re: DIS: Endgame XX

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
Yeah, same idea. It's not valid to propose to amend something that isn't a mutable rule. (Even if it might become mutable by enactment or transmutation by the time the proposal is adopted). -Dan On 25/06/2013 7:36 AM, Chuck Carroll wrote: By the same logic by which one cannot propose to amend

DIS: Proposals 331-341

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
Voting on 326-329 has closed and voting on 330 closes in half an hour. Full report at that time. Here I just number and repeat 11 new proposals. -Dan 331 (omd): > I propose that Rule 214 be amended to read: > > The Speaker shall choose Judges randomly from the set of qualified > players. Th

DIS: Agora XX: 8th report

2013-06-24 Thread Fool
Good day Agorans, Since last report, voting closed on proposals 324 and 325. Proposal 324 (Chuck) passed 4:0 with Walker, Chuck, scshunt, and Roujo voting FOR. This transmutes 110. Chuck gets 10 points by rule 302. Proposal 325 (Chuck) fails 2:2 with Chuck and Roujo FOR; scshunt and Walker

DIS: Agora XX: Proposal 330

2013-06-24 Thread Fool
Here I just number and repeat the one new proposal. Report shortly. -Dan 330 (Walker): I propose to amend Rule 324 by deleting the first sentence.

DIS: Re: OFF: [Horton] Promise Report

2013-06-23 Thread Fool
### Quantity: 1 Title: !!! Text: !!! Destruction by author condition: I [omd] CANNOT destroy this promise. Cashing condition: This promise has existed for at least two months. Author: omd Owner: Tree ##

DIS: Agora XX: Proposals 326-329 (re-send)

2013-06-23 Thread Fool
Just re-sending with the "Agora XX" prefix. Sorry about that. -- Here I just number and repeat four new proposals that were made. Voting on these closes in 24 hours. -Dan 326 (Chuck): I propose that rule 311 be amended by deleting the text “There is no other way to win.” 327 (Wa

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ reassigned to Goethe

2013-06-23 Thread Fool
I raised a CFJ which FSX was to rule on: I call for judgement on the validity of proposal 322. See rule 105. 322 contains a conditional: 322 (Walker): - If the Rule initially numbered 106 is mutable, amend Rule 210 to read ... This isn't like "the rule formerly numbered 211" which isn't a con

DIS: Proposals 326-329

2013-06-23 Thread Fool
Here I just number and repeat four new proposals that were made. Voting on these closes in 24 hours. -Dan 326 (Chuck): I propose that rule 311 be amended by deleting the text “There is no other way to win.” 327 (Walker): I propose to amend Rule 310 by replacing "inpermissible" with "impermi

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