H. Murphy, with respect, I request not to be a coauthor on the previous proto.
Proto-Proposal, AI-2: No SpeechActCrime
Increase the power of R2149 to 2 and append the following paragraphs:
An attempt to perform an action by announcement, made by asserting
that one acts as specified, is not in itself a violation of this rule
if the action fails, even if the announcer generally expects the
action to fail. It is only a violation if information other
than the direct assertion of action is known by the announcer to be
false and is willfully stated or represented as being true in the
announcement.
A person willfully claiming to be someone other than eir own person,
or directly or indirectly misleading Agorans into believing e is
a person or persona other than emself, violates this Rule in a
manner that SHOULD be subject to severe sanctions.
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In the current case, a violation would result due to the fact that the false
assertion that "Tusho is a new person" was "represented" by ehird/Tusho by
the change of email address along with the failure of ehird/Tusho to make
eir identity known in the announcement.
Otherwise, this generally firmly decriminalizes action attempts, even if
the actor is trying the action based on a very weak rules interpretation
that e doesn't really think would work---as long as e doesn't lie about
some piece of information in doing so)! Wording improvements very welcome
here.
Also, finally, firmly rejects avatars.
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