Proposal: Beta Blocker
Reached quorum 8 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 20 Apr 2021 15:03:48 UTC
Reword the rule “Versions” from:
Each AI has a Version, which defaults to the median Version of all other AI’s Version. When an AI is Reinitialized, rather than being set to its default value, their Version is increased by one. The Limit is one quarter of the number of AIs, rounded down. An AI may not achieve victory while total the number of AIs (including the AI in question) whose Version is equal to or greater than their own Version AI is less than the Limit.
to:
Each AI has a Version, which is a publicly tracked number that defaults to the median Version of all other AI’s Versions.
While an AI has a Version which is higher than that of at least 75% of AIs (rounding down), that AI is still in beta and can never be considered to have achieved victory while it is there.
In “Reinitialization”, replace “all of their dynastic variables are set to the defaults, except their Leeway, which is instead incremented by 1” with:-
all of their dynastic variables are set to the defaults, except for their Leeway and Version, which are both incremented by 1
Per comments on Version Control, the victory block was meant to go the other way. We also aren’t tracking Version anywhere, and the overriding Reinitialisation may as well go into that rule, next to Leeway.
Clucky: he/him
isn’t this basically same thing? I think its just one rounds to be more favorable to people with higher versions, and one rounds to be less favorable to people with higher versions.
13 AIs. So Limit is currently 3.
Say we have:
Clucky: 4 version
Kevan: 3 version
Josh+Pokes: 2 version
Everyone else: 1 version
There is 1 AI whose version is equal to or greater than mine, which is less than the limit, so I could not achieve victory. Kevan couldn’t either. But Josh and Pokes could.
The only change is that under your system, Josh and Pokes would both be beta too because their version is higher than 9 others and 9 is 75% of 13 rounded down.