[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.