It would be an interesting project to design a terse and elegant, non-buggy set of initial Rules suitable playing blitz nomic on a mailing list.
On 28 June 2013 13:37, Malcolm Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, this is definitely a problem with the "return to the original rules" > idea. The original rules had a lot of bugs. If this just means revisiting > those bugs every year, I'm not keen. > > Blob > > On 28/06/2013, at 11:47 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> On Fri, 28 Jun 2013, Malcolm Ryan wrote: > >>> Aaaaaand we return to the old Platonic vs Pragmatic debate. > >> > >> that has plagued Agora for a looooooong time... > > > > Oh, and remind me next year to come up with a Drinking Game for > > observers. > > > > 1. Drink if platonic versus pragmatic comes up. > > 2. Drink if there's a question of email identity. > > 3. Chug if there's a debate about whether things in the same > > message are "simultaneous". > > ... > > > > > > > > > > -- Steve Gardner Research Grants Development Faculty of Business and Economics Monash University, Caulfield campus Rm: S8.04 | ph: (613) 9905 2486 e: [email protected] *** NB I am now working 1.0 FTE, but I am away from my desk** on alternate Thursday afternoons (pay weeks). *** Two facts about lists: (1) one can never remember the last item on any list; (2) I can't remember what the other one is.

