Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A Modest Proposal

2020-02-09 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
> On Feb 8, 2020, at 2:32 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion > wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 17:22, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion > wrote: >> >> Seems reasonable. Minor thing: it would be nice if this had a self-repeal >> provision. >> >> Gaelan > > But that would move it back a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A Modest Proposal

2020-02-08 Thread Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion
On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 17:22, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion wrote: > > Seems reasonable. Minor thing: it would be nice if this had a self-repeal > provision. > > Gaelan But that would move it back afterward. -Alexis

DIS: Re: BUS: A Modest Proposal

2020-02-08 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
Seems reasonable. Minor thing: it would be nice if this had a self-repeal provision. Gaelan > On Feb 8, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-business > wrote: > > Proposal: RtRW Reschedule (AI=1) > {{{ > Amend Rule 2327 (Read the Ruleset Week) by adding the following paragraph: > { > The

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A modest proposal

2011-07-07 Thread Elliott Hird
On 7 July 2011 23:50, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > It was pointed out to me that Rule 0 says that events with absolute > deadlines don't occur at all, and "the third midnight UTC" is an > absolute deadline. Is it? It's relative to the start of the emergency.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A modest proposal

2011-07-07 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 7 July 2011 06:16, Sean Hunt wrote: >>      WHEREAS B Nomic was in fact recently discovered to have been >>      locked in perpetual Emergency since 2002, such that its game can >>      never advance; and > > Have you got any pointers? Thre

DIS: Re: BUS: A modest proposal

2011-07-07 Thread Elliott Hird
On 7 July 2011 06:16, Sean Hunt wrote: >      WHEREAS B Nomic was in fact recently discovered to have been >      locked in perpetual Emergency since 2002, such that its game can >      never advance; and Have you got any pointers? Thread titles, etc.; I must have missed this. Is there truly no

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A modest proposal

2011-07-07 Thread Sean Hunt
On 11-07-07 07:21 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: WHEREAS B Nomic, a well-played Nomic, did claim to pass a proposal directing a player to end the game, Your definition of "well-played" may be off a bit; that was a particularly bad piece

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A modest proposal

2011-07-07 Thread ais523
On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 10:21 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: > > WHEREAS B Nomic, a well-played Nomic, did claim to pass a > > proposal directing a player to end the game, > > Your definition of "well-played" may be off a bit; that was a >

DIS: Re: BUS: A modest proposal

2011-07-07 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Sean Hunt wrote: >      WHEREAS B Nomic, a well-played Nomic, did claim to pass a >      proposal directing a player to end the game, Your definition of "well-played" may be off a bit; that was a particularly bad piece of gameplay. Although, to be fair, no one act

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A modest proposal

2011-07-07 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Sean Hunt wrote: >> Award B Nomic the Patent Title "Imaginationland" > > Official pedantry:  Not a person. Proto: first create a rule making B Nomic a third-class person.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A modest proposal

2011-07-07 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 11-07-06 10:23 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Sean Hunt wrote: > > > Award B Nomic the Patent Title "Imaginationland" > > > > Official pedantry: Not a person. > > Irrelevant, but relevant is power. I retract the proposal "B is Dead! Lon

DIS: Re: BUS: A modest proposal

2011-07-06 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Sean Hunt wrote: > Award B Nomic the Patent Title "Imaginationland" Official pedantry: Not a person.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-24 Thread Taral
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most programming languages' numeric data types are really crap at storing > arbitrary numbers. They tend to be machine registers wearing wigs, > not the mathematical abstractions that we naively imagine. <3 Haskell. Prelude> 10

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-24 Thread Zefram
Elliott Hird wrote: >This is where you switch to a language that does bignums ;) Fortunately I already store it as a string. We had similar shenanigans last year. Proposal 4909 had AI=1.01337, to find out whether there was any floating-point rounding in the promotor's aut

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:07 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's really no reason to have a proposal with adoption index above 3, as power 3 is enough to grant omnipotence. (Its Royal Majesty

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:07 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There's really no reason to have a proposal with adoption index above >>> 3, as power 3 is enough to grant omnipotence. (Its Royal Majesty Rule >>> 2140 says

RE: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Alexander Smith
ihope wrote: > It's a little bit like saying that a proposal that repeals a rule also > has a property called "Food" which has no effect whatsoever. 9.9 is an > arbitrary limit; 3 is not. Like Tidbits in B? -- ais523 <>

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread ihope
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There's really no reason to have a proposal with adoption index above >> 3, as power 3 is enough to grant omnipotence. (Its Royal Majesty Rule >> 2140 says, "No entity with power below the power of this rule can . . >> .") > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > root wrote: >> There's really no reason to disallow it, either. > Apart from proposals whose AI appears to be deliberately set > high so they database can't handle them? I meant in relation to Murphy's proposal. Unless

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/23 Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Apart from proposals whose AI appears to be deliberately set > high so they database can't handle them? > -- > ais523 > It's just a good thing that we all wouldn't stoop to that level. ehird

RE: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Alexander Smith
root wrote: > There's really no reason to disallow it, either. Apart from proposals whose AI appears to be deliberately set high so they database can't handle them? -- ais523 <>

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:52 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The adoption index of a proposal is an integral multiple of 0.1 >> from 1.0 to 9.9. > > There's really no reason to have a proposal with adoption in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread ihope
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The adoption index of a proposal is an integral multiple of 0.1 > from 1.0 to 9.9. There's really no reason to have a proposal with adoption index above 3, as power 3 is enough to grant omnipotence. (Its Royal Majest

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/23 Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can I possibly talk you into retracting that? > > This is where you switch to a language that does bignums ;) ehird

DIS: Re: BUS: A MODEST PROPOSAL

2008-06-23 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: > I PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING PROPOSAL, TITLED [snip] Can I possibly talk you into retracting that?