Re: [s-b] Contract: Guess 2/3 Challenge!

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

Heyhey,

Good thing ehird's RP scrapped Contracts and not just mack...

I'm going to have to break my promise (below).

Because not doing so would make me a BUM, unless you are all hyper-rational
agents that are completely confident of each other's rationality. And even
then, it probably still would...

I'll run this contest again when spending a single mack does not deprive me
of suffrage.

Billy Pilgrim

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Jamie Dallaire
<bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I create to the following Contract and become a party to it:
> {
> Only the Player named Billy Pilgrim (who had that name at the time of this
> Contract's creation) may become a party to this Contract. No other entity
> may do so. Any party to this Contract may cease to be a party to it by
> announcement to B Nomic's Public Forum.
>
> The text of this Contract may never be changed.
>
> Any Player of B Nomic may, until the end of nday 8 of nweek 152, privately
> submit to Billy Pilgrim a single GUESS, which may not be revised, and which
> must be an integer between 0 and 100 (inclusive).
>
> The winner will be considered to be the Player whose GUESS is closest (in
> absolute value) to two thirds of the average GUESS submitted by all Players
> who have submitted GUESSES by the end of nday 8 of nweek 152. Multiple
> Players may be considered to be winners if and only if their GUESSES are
> equally close to two thirds of the average GUESS submitted by all Players,
> and no other GUESS is closer.
>
> At the end of nday 8 of nweek 152, Billy Pilgrim is obliged to give a
> number of macks, equivalent to that winner's guess, to each winner. The only
> situation in which Billy Pilgrim is not so obliged is if there are multiple
> winners and the sum of their GUESSES is superior to 100.
> }
>
> Happy Guessing!!!
>
> Billy Pilgrim
>
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