[Nomic] Proposals

[Adam Biltcliffe]

Is this one proposal, or two?

On Sep 22 2004, Jonathan David Amery wrote:

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> Remove all text after the word 'world.' from rule 3.
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Aye, since the List of Voters now exists and the clause specifying its 
initial contents is redundant.

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> The Rule of Autoadoption
> 
> Any player may join the game providing that the following events have
> happened:
> 
> 1) They have subscribed to the mailing list (if there is one).
> 2) They are not already in the List of Voters.
> 3) They have made a post to the mailing list declaring that:
>  a) All of 1-3 are satisfied.
>  b) They are not a lizardman from Antares IV.
>  c) They wish to join the game.
> 
> Once these events have happened then they are added to the List of
> Voters, and are deemed to have joined the game.  Their consent is not
> needed on any issues that require consent that are under consideration
> at the time of their joining the game.
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This looks good to me, with the following changes:

* Clarify what is meant by 'player' (eg. 'any real-world sentient entity 
may join the game ...')

* Replace 'events have happened' with 'conditions are satisfied' (since 2 
is not a condition)

I also note that:

Condition 1 should be eventually removed, and a rule should be added 
declaring that posting something to the mailing list is considered 
sufficient to make all other players aware of it. That way, people can play 
without being on the list if they really want to, but it's their own 
problem if they don't know what the hell is going on.

Also, it seems to me that the last sentence does not conflict with my 
interpretation of Rule 4. This is good, since there is no way for one rule 
to override another and if it did the set of rules would become 
inconsistent ... we need to watch out for this.

adam