Re: [s-d] Dice Master

["Aaron Coquet" <farfromunique@xxxxxxxxx>]

to lead into a second consultation.

Once the previously submitted consultation is answered, I submit the
following consultation:
Is any email coming from the specified email address considered to be
from the player to whom that email address is registered?
-- 
Aaron C, who thinks remailers are interesting

On Nov 30, 2007 10:26 AM, Geoffrey Spear <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I believe that regardless of whether the Dice Master is a Player it
> is, in fact, a PEP, since who the Players are is unclear or ambiguous,
> and it can be argued that the Dice Master could pass a Membership Test
> comprised solely of being able to send and receive email messages (the
> "any or all" problem in Rule 1-17), which was accepted as the basis
> for the AFO's status as a Player in a Consultation (not yet Pondered,
> but I think this still establishes the ambiguity), and it can further
> be argued that the Registrar's refusal to allow the Dice Master to
> become a Player is of ambiguous legality since the rules as written
> seem to indicate that becoming a Player happens instantly when a
> message requesting to do so is received in the Public Forum, making
> the refusal by the Registrar in violation of the Temporal Prime
> Directive.  The quantum interpretation of the relevant Consultation
> (also not Pondered) on that point is probably itself ambiguous or
> unclear.
>
> I submit as further evidence the existence of Refresh Proposals that
> would deregister the Dice Master if it's a Player.  Why make such a
> proposal if its status is not entirely unclear?
>
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2007 1:08 PM, Aaron Coquet <farfromunique@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When the Pause ends, I submit the following consultation:
> > Is it true that Dice Master is a player?
> >
> > Unbeliever: Aaron C
> > Reasoning: according to text at the bottom of every message posted by
> > Dice Master, there is a website with instructions on how to control
> > the actions of Dice Master. This website also states that Dice Master
> > is a computer program, which is a clone of another computer program.
> > In the event that computer programs are allowed to be players, Dice
> > Master is not a unique being, but rather a clone.
> >
> > --
> > Aaron C
> > "H. P. Lovecraft is Rock and Roll" -- Neil Gaiman
> > Don't Panic!
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Aaron C
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Don't Panic!
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