[Nomic02] Proposal: Tiny Paws

[Dylan O'Donnell]

Admiral Jota wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Dylan O'Donnell wrote:
> 
> >   Tiny Paws [Psmith]
> >
> >   The monkey may carry a maximum of one token at any one time. If the
> >   monkey is already carrying a token, it may not acquire another (by
> >   picking up, stealing, or any other means) until it has ceased to
> >   carry that token.
> 
> I like this in principle, but perhaps it should only prohibit the monkey
> acquiring items by actions taken by the uplink-holder? Or, even more
> explicitly, to prevent any actions to be taken by the uplink-holder that
> would result in the monkey carrying multiple objects? So that we don't
> risk contradictions with any other rules that introduce objects to
> inventory by other means...

Nay to this proposal, then, and propose (trying to keep it clean
of assumptions that the only way to control the monkey is the uplink,
since we might want to add more):

  Tiny Paws II [Psmith]

  The monkey may carry a maximum of one token at any one time. If the
  monkey is already carrying a token, it may not acquire another until
  it has ceased to carry that token. No action may be taken to directly
  cause the monkey to acquire such a second token (by picking up
  stealing, or any other means). If a second token's location would be
  being set to the monkey by means other than a direct action, it will
  instead be set to the monkey's location.

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