Re: [s-d] [s-b] Consultation on my playerhood, take 4 or 5 or something

[ais523 <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:58 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote:
> I submit the following Consultation, naming tusho as Unbeliever:
> 
> Is Wooble a Player?
> 
> Argument:
> I submitted this transaction to spoon-business:
> BEGIN TRANSACTION
> I transfer everything I legally can to the Internomic Investment Bank.
> 
> I forfeit the game.
> END TRANSACTION
> 
> The Internomic Investment Bank is a public contract governed by the
> rules of Agora. I can legally transfer some subset of my Agoran
> assets, specifically my Flainian Pobble Beads, to the IIB.  However,
> this transfer, to be effective, must be done by announcement to an
> Agoran public forum.  Thus, the first action in the transaction
> failed, causing the transaction as a whole to fail.
Yep, that seems right; it's certainly possible to transfer some of your
Agoran assets to the IIB, but it doesn't happen unless you tell Agora
about it, so the transaction fails. (This could open up an interesting
can of worms by the way; it's certainly legally possible in B to
transfer some of /my/ Agoran assets to the Agoran IIB as that has no
effect on B's gamestate, but such an action would (I hope) fail in
Agora, so it's possible that a transaction worded like that can never
succeed if "legally" is interpreted as "legal in B".)
-- 
ais523
B Nomic Watcher, Agoran Player
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