Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-07-02 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: 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

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Michael

2013-06-27 Thread Fool
[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 following statement

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Michael

2013-06-27 Thread Steven Gardner
-discussion-**boun...@agoranomic.orgagora-discussion-boun...@agoranomic.org] On Behalf Of Fool Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:10 PM To: agora-discussion@agoranomic.**org agora-discussion@agoranomic.org Subject: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Walker On 26/06/2013 10:09 AM, games

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to omd

2013-06-27 Thread omd
On Thursday, June 27, 2013, Fool wrote: CFJ: a player who forfeits the game can still vote and/or transfer points. In most games, after a player loses or forfeits, e is no longer considered a player and can no longer make any type of move, and Rule 113 concurs with this in contrasting

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Walker

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Walker
On 27 June 2013 02:10, Fool fool1...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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 die

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to Michael

2013-06-27 Thread Michael Norrish
(as the assignment of a Judge was at the time of the previous CFJ). Chuck -Original Message- 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

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 rules

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ assigned to FSX

2013-06-27 Thread Flameshadowxeroshin
Rule 113, while implying that forfeiture usually is a choice, does not appear to indicate that a person may not be forced to do it. The only thing it seems to imply is that you cannot prevent a person from doing it. Therefore, if a person is forced to forfeit, they have forfeited, and I judge this

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread omd
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, Fool wrote: Goethe's arguments: Was thinking about this, it's interesting that this win attempt goes along with our earlier discussion on legal versus mathematical. In a mathematical sense, one could say that it was equally likely or unlikely that omd sent the

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

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ

2013-06-26 Thread games_na
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. Reasoning: Rule 331 reads, The Speaker shall choose Judges randomly from the set of qualified players. The players qualified to judge a

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ

2013-06-26 Thread omd
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 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. I think you need to wait until a purported selection actually occurs. In any case, this might be enough

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ

2013-06-26 Thread games_na
Yes, it had occurred to me that Rule 219 is unclear if the move under consideration has to be an actual or at least attempted move, or if a hypothetical move is sufficient. If the latter, well, here it is. If the former, then I needed to get the ball rolling by making a CFJ anyway. (Although I

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: 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

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, 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

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on forfeiture

2013-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
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, retain voting, etc? Just seeking

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ

2013-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, omd wrote: On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 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. I think you need to wait until a purported

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ

2013-06-26 Thread omd
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 that my principle would necessarily hold in Agora

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Steven Gardner
You should have injected them with an emergency hit of information theory. Instant clarity. -- Steve Gardner via mobile On 27 Jun 2013 02:08, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I was blocking on the

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

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 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

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: 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 assigned to Steve

2013-06-26 Thread Steven Gardner
I judge that this statement is FALSE. R207 is silent on the question of whether Roujo can can legally cast votes in the manner e attempted. By R217 I must therefore be guided by game custom and spirit of the game. Game custom is not sufficiently established to be of use here. The spirit of this

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ

2013-06-26 Thread Chuck Carroll
-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 following statement

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
On 25/06/2013 4:34 PM, omd wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:27 PM, The UNDEADtheagoranund...@gmail.com wrote: I do not register. I propose repealing rule 327. Well... even though there are supposed to be a few days left, I don't want to delay this further lest someone else beat me to it :)

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: Furthermore I fail to see how even the mathematician's (thought it was supposed to be logician's) version of the argument is sound. The reference to the principle of indifference instead makes it sound like some sort of Bayesian reasoning. But let me put my

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ reassigned to Walker

2013-06-23 Thread Fool
scshunt raised 2 CFJs which I was to rule on. I ruled on one with my 6th report, and procrastinated on this one: I invoke judgement on whether Rule 304 had the power to repeal itself without that rule change being voted on. I think that all rule changes must be voted on and cannot occur

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

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ

2013-06-22 Thread Chuck Carroll
I invoke Judgement on the following statement: The proposals numbered 312, 313, 318, 319, and 320 are not proposed rule changes, and will have no effect if adopted, regardless of the adoption of other currently existing proposals. Reasoning: they propose to amend (currently) immutable

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ

2013-06-22 Thread Fool
On 22/06/2013 9:09 AM, Chuck Carroll wrote: I invoke Judgement on the following statement: The “proposals” numbered 312, 313, 318, 319, and 320 are not proposed rule changes, and will have no effect if adopted, regardless of the adoption of other currently existing proposals. Reasoning: they