[Nomic] *CORRECTED* Summary 04/09/30
Jonathan David Amery
nomic-talk at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Sep 30 22:58:01 2004
This is the corrected version...
Any of these rules will pass by autoadoption if they have no withheld
consents:
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The 'Exception that proves the' Rule:
A rule may override another rule if and only if it mentions that rule by
name. The only exception is this rule, which overrides all others,
except those which mention it by name.
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Consent: Maz, JJ, Martin, adam, dok, Madeleine, Stumo, Mike
Withheld: Carrie (based on uncertainty about the matter of rules merely
referencing others rather than explicitly overriding them)
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The Rule of Self-Image
The game shall have a name, which shall be "Terrapin Nomic".
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Consent: JJ, adam, dok, Mike, Martin, Madeleine, Maz
Withheld: Carrie, Stumo
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Twice the fun; harf the harf!
A proposed rules change may be described as harfy.
A proposed rules change can only become harfy if:
a) No other proposed rules change is harfy.
b) The Harfharfer declares that it is harfy.
c) It was not proposed by the current Harfharfer.
If a harfy rules change takes place then the following events happen:
a) The entity which proposed the rules change gains one chocolate biscuit.
b) The entity which proposed the rules change becomes the Harfharfer;
the previous Harfharfer ceases to be the Harfharfer.
c) If the rule change created a rule, then that rule may also be
described as harfy.
If there is no harfy rules change for three days, but there exist
non-harfy proposed rules changes for that entire period, then the
Harfharfer is guilty of the Crime of Hogging the Harf.
The standard punishment for the Crime of Hogging the Harf shall be
confiscation of two chocolate biscuits.
Adam Biltcliffe becomes the Harfharfer; The Rule of Girls may be
described as harfy; and this paragraph is deleted from the rules.
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Proposer: Madeleine
Consent: adam, JJ, dok, Maz
Withheld: Mike, Carrie
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But I can't hear it!
/* -- REM, Radio Song */
Any text in a rule between C-style comment delimiters; as demonstrated
above; has no rules effect, and exists only as a comment
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Proposer: Madeleine
Consent: JJ, Maz, Mike, ahdok
Withheld: adam
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Bored Of Being Board
There shall exist an infinite, 2-dimensional integer grid (a copy of
Z^2), henceforth known as The Board. The Board, and the location of
entities upon it, shall be considered part of the state of the game. If
at any point a member of the List of Voters lacks a location on The
Board, their location shall be set to (0,0).
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Proposer: Martin
Consent: JJ, Stumo, adam, Carrie, Madeleine, dok, Maz, Mike
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Insufficient Notices
Any voting entity who creates a document purporting to be a Notice of
Consensus which is not in fact valid shall be guilty of the crime of Taking
Insufficient Notice.
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Proposer: adam
Consent: Stumo, dok, JJ, Madeleine, Maz, Mike
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I propose changing the wording of Rule 4, Consensus of Opinion from:
A Consensus of Opinion on a particular issue exists when one entity named on
the List of Voters makes a proposal describing the issue to all other
entities named on the List of Voters, obtains unambiguous consent to that
proposal from each such entity and then posts a public Notice of Consensus
to the other members detailing the issue upon which Consensus of Opinion has
been reached.
to:
A Consensus of Opinion on a particular issue exists when one entity named on
the List of Voters makes a proposal describing the issue to all other
entities named on the List of Voters, obtains unambiguous consent to that
proposal from each such entity that will be affected differently to all
other such entities and all but at most one other such entity, and then
posts a public Notice of Consensus to the other members detailing the issue
upon which Consensus of Opinion has been reached.
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Proposer: JJ
Consent: Madeleine, Maz, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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**** Proposals after this have times of Assumed Consent noted ****
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House of Cards
A Pack of Cards has 42 cards; consisting of eight ranks; 78ATKQJ9; in
each of five suits; BFGKP; and two Jokers.
The ranks have the following names:
7 Seven
8 Six
A Ace
T Ten
K King
Q Queen
J Jack
9 Nine
The suits have the following names:
B Bombs
F Fridges
G Guns
K Knives
P Poisons
The Jokers are:
The Umpire
The Cop
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Proposer: Wild Card
Consent Assumed: Thu Sep 30 00:40:09 2004
Consent: Adam, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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The Rule of Names
The Game shall have a Name. Until a name is chosen then any player
may propose Names. Any Name that recieves the explicit support of
more than half of the List of Voters, and strictly more support than
every other name will become the Name of the Game and any other Name
Proposals shall be dropped.
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Proposer: Wild Card
Consent Assumed: Thu Sep 30 23:09:16 2004
Consent: Adam, ahdok
Withheld: Carrie, Mike
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Create a Rule as follows
Dictionary Additions 1.
Add the following definitions to the Dictionary, then remove this rule from
the ruleset:
C. = unit of Currency
triangle = unit of distance on the Board
The Grid = The Board
MiniTrue = the Ministry post 'Minister of Truth'
MiniFree = the Ministry post 'Minister of Freedom'
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Proposer: JJ
Consent Assumed: Thu Sep 30 23:53:11 2004
Consent: Adam, Carrie, Stumo, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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Sociability
Any two players whose locations on the Bored of Being Board are the same are
Friendly.
Any player whose location is at least 4 triangles from all other players
(under a Euclidean metric) is a Loner.
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Proposer: JJ
Consent Assumed: Thu Sep 30 23:53:11 2004
Consent: Adam, Carrie, Stumo, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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...I wandered expensively as a bird...
2. Any player may spend a unit of Currency from their BANK account at any
time to move their location one orthogonal unit on the Board, informing the
other players of this fact and their new location.
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Proposer: JJ
Consent Assumed: Thu Sep 30 23:53:11 2004
Consent: Adam, Carrie, Stumo, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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Arbitration
In the event of something having to be chosen arbitrarily then any
person who has to harf that thing may make the choice by whatever
means they deem appropriate.
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Proposer: Wild Card
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 00:00:23 2004
Withheld: Adam, Mike
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Hanging Chad
All players shall have unique, positive, integer, reference numbers.
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Proposer: Wild Card
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 00:00:33 2004
Consent: Adam, JJ, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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It's easier than learning your ABC
Every player shall number their proposals. Proposal numbers shall be
of the form a.b; where a shall be the unique reference number of the
player, and b shall be a positive integer chosen such that:
a) a.b is unique
b) b is strictly larger than every other b that that player has ever
used for a proposal number.
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Proposer: Wild Card
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 00:00:27 2004
Withheld: Adam, Mike
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Rule five.
Once the stupid notice of consensus for now this rule is issued eventually,
new rules passed stand, providing, however, every fifth word (not including
words in the email title) is considered not ignored, to exist if the
Akanomic rule contains the word I "rule" in its title. Remember, This rule
only applies blindly to itself and rules not containing higher numbers than
three it. This affects itself immediately under the interpretation it
suddenly takes after every fifth written word, is removed.
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Proposer: ahdok
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 02:06:23 2004
Withheld: Mike, Carrie
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Clerk of the Vatican
The Ministry shall contain a post called the Clerk of the Vatican. The
duties of the Clerk of the Vatican shall include maintaining and making
publically available a list of entities who are willing to judge disputes
over the interpretation of the rules or gamestate.
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Proposer: Adam
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 00:25:09 2004
Consent: JJ, Wild Card, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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Judgement Procedure
If a member of the List of Voters wishes to assert the validity of a claim
which refers solely to the rules or gamestate, that entity make invoke the
Judgement Procedure by publically claiming to be invoking the Judgement of
the Pope and supplying the statement whose validity is under question. The
invoking entity may also present an argument suporting the statement.
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Proposer: Adam
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 00:25:09 2004
Consent: JJ, Wild Card, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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White Smoke
When an entity invokes the Judgement of the Pope, it shall be the duty of
the Clerk of the Vatican to select an entity to act as Pope in the
resolution of that claim. This selection shall be performed by uniform
random selection from the set of all entities which:
a) have informed the Clerk of the Vatican that they are willing to act as
Pope, and not subsequently retracted that statement
b) are not considered to be lizardmen from Antares IV
c) are not the entity invoking the Judgement of the Pope If this set is
empty, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Vatican to cause it to
cease being so.
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Proposer: Adam
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 00:25:09 2004
Consent: JJ, Wild Card, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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Papal Edicts
When the Judgement of the Pope has been invoked and the Clerk of the
Vatican has selected an entity to act as Pope, the Pope may pass judgement
on the claim.
Legal judgements shall be:
TRUE if the Pope believes the claim to be true with respect to all aspects
of the current state of the game
FALSE if the Pope believes the claim not to be true with respect to all
aspects of the current state of the game
Either TRUE or FALSE if the Pope believes the claim to be ambiguous with
respect to all aspects of the current state of the game, depending on the
Pope's beliefs about the original intent of the rules and the entities
which have acted on the game, which interpretation makes more sense and
which interpretation will lead to a more enjoyable game
AN OFFENCE AGAINST GOD if the Pope believes that the invocation of
judgement was not correctly made or that it would be otherwise
inappropriate to pass judgement
When the Pope rules a claim TRUE or FALSE, that ruling shall be used to
determine future interpretations of the rules and gamestate.
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Proposer: Adam
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 00:25:09 2004
Consent: JJ, Wild Card, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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Change every instance of the word "unambiguous" in the rules to "explicit".
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Proposer: Wild Card
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 02:02:08 2004
Consent: Adam, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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Public Records
If a member of the list of voters wishes a view expressed by them to
have an effect on the game, it must be recorded by sending an email to
the email list. The view shall be considered to have been expressed at
the time the email was sent, as recorded by the email list archives. If
a view has not been expressed in this manner, it may be ignored by
members of the list of voters at their leisure.
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Proposer: Stumo
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 02:10:24 2004
Consent: Adam, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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The Rule That Won't Exist For Long
This rule overrides Rule 2, Mutability of the Rules.
If ever this rule is in force, the following definitions shall be added to
the Definitions Dictionary:
ENTITY - Anything having existence in the real (extranomic) world. RESON -
Any construction of the game which has existence in the gameworld defined
by the rules. THINGY - synonymous with RESON
The following changes shall then be applied to the rules:
All occurrences of the word 'entity' in Rule 1, Existence of the Game shall
be replaced with 'reson'.
The sentence 'This list shall be known as the List of Voters' shall be
appended to Rule 3, List of Voters.
The Rule That Won't Exist For Long shall be deleted from the rules.
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Proposer: Adam
Consent Assumed: Fri Oct 1 17:57:14 2004
Consent: JJ, Stumo, ahdok
Withheld: Mike
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Thats the Name of the Game
The game shall have a name and it shall be "Astronomic"
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Proposer: Carrie
Consent Assumed: Sat Oct 2 14:34:29 2004
Consent: Wild Card, Mike, Adam, ahdok
Withheld: Stumo
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Name that Game
The game shall have a name and it shall be "Bowling for Buzzards"
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Proposer: Carrie
Consent Assumed: Sat Oct 2 14:34:29 2004
Consent: Stumo, Wild Card, ahdok
Withheld: Mike, Adam
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Thrid Time Lucky
The game shall have a name and it shall be "Bobbing for Snapping Turtles"
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Proposer: Carrie
Consent Assumed: Sat Oct 2 14:34:29 2004
Consent: Wild Card, ahdok
Withheld: Stumo, Mike, Adam
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Community Chest
There exists a class of object called Community Chest Cards.
Community Chest Cards may be created at whim out of the ether as
required by the rules.
When a Community Chest Card is played, it is destroyed.
There exists a dictionary of Community Chest Card types, and their
actions. Initially this is empty.
If a rule does not specify what type of Community Chest Card is
created then they are created at random; with an equal likelyhood of
each type.
Unless otherwise specified by the rules the type of any Community
Chest Card is a secret, revealed only to the player who possesses it.
Community Chest Card actions have the force of rule.
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Proposer: Wild Card
Consent Assumed: Sat Oct 2 16:17:13 2004
Consent: Stumo, adam, Carrie, ahdok, Mike
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I'm gonna be a History Maker in this land
The Duty of the Minister of Perspicuity shall be to keep a record of
important game events; viz to be a game historian.
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Proposer: Wild Card
Consent Assumed: Sun Oct 3 15:24:11 2004
Consent: Adam, Mike, Stumo
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I'm gonna be a Speaker of Truth to all Mankind
Initially the Minister of Perspicuity shall be Wild Card.
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Proposer: Wild Card
Consent Assumed: Sun Oct 3 15:24:11 2004
Consent: Adam, Mike, Stumo
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Summary finished by Wild Card Thu Sep 30 22:47:17 BST 2004