Re: spoon-discuss: a wacky idea

[Rob Speer <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:28:54PM +0000, David E. Smith wrote:
> Would anyone object if we just dispense with some 90% of those annoying
> rules and just go with the Imperial Nomic rules?
> 
> (Some version of
> http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/Nomic/27/Initial_Rules.html probably)
> 
> Pro: We don't have to worry about voting and all that silly stuff.
> Con (well, maybe): I get to be an insane fascist. ;)
> 
> I was just browsing the NomicWiki this morning and that just suddenly
> struck me as being a very cool idea, but I want to know what people are
> interested in before going.

I fail to see the point of an Imperial Nomic.

Part of the fun of Nomic is to get other people to accept a rule which
subtly works to your advantage, and to balance the interest of the game
as a whole with your own self-interest.
-- 
Rob Speer