Re: [s-b] Further consultations on the Sharpener

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

These Consultations are numbered:

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I submit the following Consultations:


164

> {Question: Are mackerel fungible?
> Arguments: The answer ought to be yes, though I see nothing in the
> rules to establish that it is. There's a Consultation precedent
> supporting yes, though; if they're not fungible we could not have
> built the Laser Printer, which comex judged that we had.}
>

165

> {Question: Does there exist a square with the color (255,255,255)?
> Unbeliever: ehird
> Arguments: This hinges on whether ehird's right that comex couldn't
> reuse mackerel-spending or not.}
>

166

> {Were any mackerel successfully destroyed by the Pencil Sharpener?
> Unbeliever: comex
> Arguments: The arguments in my previous consultation established that
> if the Laser Printer worked (which it did) then the Pencil Sharpener
> failed to specify its procedure concretely enough. Given the
> fungibility of mackerel, "m30000 in the possession of comex" is
> sufficiently specific, but "all mackerel created by the laser printer
> is not." (If macks were non-fungible, the latter would be valid but
> not the former; were this the case the Sharpener couldn't have been
> built.}


167

> {Question: Did the Pencil Sharpener do anything at all?
> Unbeliever: comex
> Arguments: If the Sharpener procedure that destroys mackerel doesn't
> succeed in doing so, it could be taken to mean that the entire
> procedure failed. More likely, however, each step gets implemented as
> a game action, and either works or doesn't; in this case, the Pencil
> Sharpener did everything it was supposed to including plugging the
> loophole, but comex is still the richest player in the game (followed
> by me and Warrigal).}


Oracle Billy Pilgrim
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