On 1/10/2020 7:30 PM, Falsifian wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 20:25, Alexis wrote:
(and
possibly codifying an approach to "is history part of the game state").
Aris tried to do this in June with eir "Timeline Control Ordnance" [0]
which became Proposal 8195. I don't remember exactly why we voted it
down, except that G. was afraid of something, and I voted with G. to
be safe and also, in hindsight, because I had my own idea.
I said the passage of time should be protected in general, at a high level,
before we tried this. Just as a precaution. The reason for protecting time
was brought up in the last paragraph of CFJ 3580 which noted that a
relatively low-level rule could start and stop time (e.g. create a game
clock), and if it ended up stopping time with no way to start it, would get
around the Agora-protecting clauses of R101 and R1698:
https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?3580
