Re: [s-d] Initial ruleset for Γ

[Eric Stucky <turiski.nomic@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 24, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Alex Smith wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 14:09 -0400, Jamie Dallaire wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 20:43 -0700, Sean Hunt wrote:
>>>> Are there any suggestions for an initial ruleset? Some Suber variant
>>>> that can't be abused right from the start?
>>> 
>>> I'd rather have something that /can/ be abused right from the start.
>>> 
>>> OK, how about we start with this and amend?
>> 
>> {
>> Law 1: This document is a list of laws, each of which is identified by a
>> number and has a body of text.
>> 
>> Law 2: This document has a notional existence, independent of any of its
>> instances or copies. Modifying these therefore has no effect on this
>> document.
>> 
>> Law 3: Laws specify ways, which are the only ways, in which this document
>> may be modified.
>> 
>> Law 4: All references to words or text strings, in this document, refer to
>> the text between and excluding the next consecutive quotation marks, and are
>> case-insensitive.
>> 
>> Law 5: Emails received by spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx may contain proposed
>> modifications to this document. The following are the only text strings
>> which count as proposed modifications. All other text strings are ignored.
>> - "Remove law #", where "#" is an integer, is a proposal to remove the law
>> with this number from this document.
>> - "Insert law {STRING}", where "STRING" is a text string, are proposals to
>> append a new law to the bottom of this document, with the "STRING" as its
>> body and the next integer, greater than 0, not currently assigned to an
>> existing law, as its number.
>> 
>> Law 6: If more humans send emails containing the word "yes" than containing
>> the word "no" to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx during the 72 hours following the
>> receipt of a proposed modification, then this document is modified as
>> proposed at the end of that 72 hour period. A maximum of one "yes" and one
>> "no" from each human apply to a given proposed modification.
>> 
>> Law 7: The following actions are either possible according to other laws, or
>> impossible but difficult for other humans to distinguish from possible
>> actions. They are to be severely frowned upon, and optionally ignored,
>> because they are considered universally boring:
>> - Sending emails to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx from multiple accounts,
>> pretending to be more than one human.
>> - Enlisting non-humans or humans who show no particular interest in this
>> document to send emails to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx on one's behalf.
>> }
> 
> Enacting rules is broken, because "the only text strings" in Law 5
> refers only to "Remove law #" according to Law 4.
> 
> As such, Remove law 4.
> 
> Also, um, as far as I can tell you simultaneously have to vote FOR all
> pending modifications, or AGAINST. That could be interesting...
> 
> -- 
> ais523

Yes, it might.

-Turiski



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