Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2019-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
I've never looked up Wikipedia on Wikipedia, but it started 2001 (according to Wikipedia). Agora was 1993 (Rule 1727), so definitely older. On 2/4/2019 3:12 PM, David Seeber wrote: That sounds like the beginning of a thesis. But anyway. In my opinion it’s Wikipedia mentioning them because

RE: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2019-02-04 Thread David Seeber
It is possible that Wikipedia is inaccurate. -Original Message- From: agora-discussion On Behalf Of Kerim Aydin Sent: 04 February 2019 23:22 To: Agora Nomic discussions (DF) Subject: Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration I've never looked up Wikipedia on Wikipedia, but it started 2001

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: With apologies to Trigon

2019-02-04 Thread Reuben Staley
The quoted hashed string is: Trigon watched as his hit landed. Surprisingly, it didn't seem to do much damage. He realized that he had lost. But how? Telnaior hailed his ship once again. "I apologize for this, but you're the best target I have. Picking on anyone else would be far too much

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2019-02-04 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 23:05 +, David Seeber wrote: > Actually it was a good friend of mine who is a sort of board game > nerd. He has a little nomic which he plays with a few friends and > invited me to join in. Whilst checking out what nomics actually are, > I found the Wikipedia page, which

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: still need a currency for something

2019-02-04 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
On Monday, February 4, 2019 11:22 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > It's not 100% guaranteed to work, Actually, scratch that bit, it works fine (again, assuming the scam itself works in the first place). -twg

DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2019-02-04 Thread David Seeber
Actually it was a good friend of mine who is a sort of board game nerd. He has a little nomic which he plays with a few friends and invited me to join in. Whilst checking out what nomics actually are, I found the Wikipedia page, which talks about Agora being the biggest nomic still running. And

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2019-02-04 Thread Gaelan Steele
I imagine it’s a cycle. Gaelan > On Feb 4, 2019, at 3:09 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > > > Theory: the fact that Agora and BlogNomic are by far the longest- > lasting nomics is connected to the fact that they're the only ones > referenced from Wikipedia. (That said, the causality may

RE: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2019-02-04 Thread David Seeber
That sounds like the beginning of a thesis. But anyway. In my opinion it’s Wikipedia mentioning them because they are still around. The easiest thing to do would be a. check the modification records from Wikipedia (I assume that's possible because it's all meant to be transparent,

DIS: Re: BUS: still need a currency for something

2019-02-04 Thread Gaelan Steele
Please do tell at some point—that sounds great Gaelan > On Feb 4, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > Ta. > > I intend, with 2 Agoran Consent, to award myself the degree Associate of > Nomic (A.N.). > > (Incidentally, this scam method could also be used for a power-3 >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: still need a currency for something

2019-02-04 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 14:39 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On 2/4/2019 2:11 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > Ta. > > > > I intend, with 2 Agoran Consent, to award myself the degree Associate of > > Nomic (A.N.). > > Ok, a contract and a thesis intent, very intrigued... > > I'm fighting between

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2019-02-04 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 23:09 +, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 23:05 +, David Seeber wrote: > > Actually it was a good friend of mine who is a sort of board game > > nerd. He has a little nomic which he plays with a few friends and > > invited me to join in. Whilst

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: still need a currency for something

2019-02-04 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Well, in accordance with Murphy's Law, I predict I've overlooked something stupidly obvious and it won't work at all, but I'm glad everyone's finding it interesting. Nothing more to see here until the 4-day limit expires, so please return to your regularly scheduled interstellar warfare and

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2019-02-04 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
I love that the talk page on that Wikipedia article has an argument about how to define a nomic. -twg ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, February 4, 2019 11:16 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 23:09 +, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > > > On Mon,

DIS: Re: BUS: still need a currency for something

2019-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 2/4/2019 2:11 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > Ta. > > I intend, with 2 Agoran Consent, to award myself the degree Associate of > Nomic (A.N.). Ok, a contract and a thesis intent, very intrigued... I'm fighting between my "contest-running" hat to be a patsy and support everything vs. my

DIS: Re: BUS: still need a currency for something

2019-02-04 Thread Ørjan Johansen
I assume G. was hinting to the fact that these are fungible assets yet distinguishable. Not that the rules define what "fungible" means, anymore. Which might make them hard to track, so just as well that there's no recordkeepor defined. No idea how you intend to get any advantage out of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: still need a currency for something

2019-02-04 Thread Kerim Aydin
It's Complicated: https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?1362 (or if not complicated, it's at least wordy). On 2/4/2019 7:52 AM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: I assume G. was hinting to the fact that these are fungible assets yet distinguishable.  Not that the rules define what "fungible"

DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2019-02-04 Thread Cuddle Beam
Welcome Baron! I'm quite curious, how did you find Agora? On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 9:45 PM Reuben Staley wrote: > Welcome to Agora! I cause Baron Von Vaderham to receive a welcome package. > > -- > Trigon > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 13:10 David Seeber > > I register as a player. > > > > Baron Von

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: With apologies to Trigon

2019-02-04 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Telnaior has sent eir Energy value now, so fire away with the melons. -twg ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, February 4, 2019 1:40 AM, Reuben Staley wrote: > PF > > On 2/3/19 6:40 PM, Reuben Staley wrote: > > > Getting roped into doing a space battle I didn't even want to do in