[Nomic] Proposal: No finality

Jonathan David Amery nomic-talk at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Sep 23 23:47:01 2004


> This seems to be about the right spirit, but the implementation is flawed. 
> Specifically, Rule 0, if created as above, would not be permitted to 
> override any rules which state that it is possible to win the game, since 
> it doesn't name them explicitly, and so a contradiction would be created. I 
> suggest a simpler proposal along the lines of "If a player wins, they <are 
> recognised in some glorious way>. Winning the game does not cause the game 
> to end."
> 
 Something like Rule 0 is needed to stop infinite-win-cycles (caused
one of those by mistake once in .nomic...).

 WC.