Re: [s-d] Re: Judge Assignment: 15 points for DOOM!

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 26, 2005, at 10.11 AM, Peter Cooper Jr. wrote:

> >   * Since the Upper House is a collection of players, that collection
> > of players is now collectively the Judge of the CFI.
> >   * The Judge is required and empowered by the rules to judge this
> > CFI; hence the collection of player is as a unit empowered to issue
> > judgment.
> >   * There is only one reasonable way of getting a group of people to
> > issue a single decision; hence, every member of the Upper House should
> > submit a judgment, and once the allotted time for judging the CFI has
> > passed, the most popular judgment will be the House's judgment.
>
> It seems to me that another reasonable way is to randomly pick a
> person to handle the decision. This is, in fact, how the judgement
> gets handled in the first place.
>
> Having the committee handle it might run into the issue of how you
> reconcile everyone's idea of what the Outcome should be.

Yeah, maybe your way is better... Except I don't like Glotmorf's 
Outcome, though I admit that it's mostly for selfish reasons, since eir 
judgment would require me to rewrite substantial portions of cards 
history...

> > This is consistent with the way the House worked prior to its
> > rewording, and is also consistent with the wording and spirit of the
> > rules.
>
> It could be within the wording and spirit, but saying "we changed the
> rules and we want to work the way it did before we changed the rules"
> seems like a dangerous thing to say in a Nomic.

I wouldn't make that claim if the wording didn't at least seem to 
support it.

> As a side note, I think that the judging system needs some revisions
> anyway... Right now, I think that a judge could issue an Outcome that
> removed all the rules about appealing, and could probably set emself
> up as the Supreme Dictator of B Nomic. Since I have little experience
> with Nomic judging systems, I'm afraid that I'd mess it up even more,
> and apparently you guys have an idea of how it used to work and like
> that, so I'll let somebody else Prop the changes.

I wonder if it wouldn't be easier just to have every CFI be a 
Proposal-like object, maybe running on a different time system so we 
wouldn't have to wait all nweek.

--
Wonko

 It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have 
flunked in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue.

  --quoted in Robert L. Weber, Science With a Smile (1992)

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