On 28 June 2013 14:18, Aaron Goldfein <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Steven Gardner > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Or we could just squash all the bugs and continue where we left off > last year. Ideal blitz ruleset via evolution. > That's a different project. I don't think anyone believes that any nomic, once it starts evolving from its initial state, evolves towards an ideal *initial* state. What I'd be looking for is a ruleset which fixes bugs likes changing rule numbers, defines simultaneity, incorporates some lessons about pragmatism in a minimally committal way and generally leaves the rest open for players to explore politics and law and not bug-fixes and mechanics. Steve -- 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.
