spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: new players

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 1/13/02 2:41 PM, Donald Whytock at dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I discussed the game of Nomic in general, and B Nomic in particular, with 21
> of my imaginary friends. Since there doesn't seem to be a game requirement
> that players exist in this physical reality, they all agreed to join.
> Unfortunately, that very state renders them somewhat impaired for dealing with
> the internet in this reality, as well as the computers required for accessing
> it, so they have asked me to relay messages to and from the fora for them.
> Similarly, they have all given me their proxies, so I'll be casting their
> votes as per their instructions.
> 
> Glotmorf
> 
> The list of new players in the game is:
> 
> 
> Maggie Peters
> Tabatha Sayle
> Shea
> Eliza Carter
> Mahmoud Rafik
> Bob Harney
> Cheryl Smith
> Jason Hodges
> Bob Brown
> Clio the Cat
> Janice Yeh
> Joe MacArthur
> Lydia Blankenship
> Steve Osgood
> Pirx
> Aknar the Hunter
> Fidelio
> Eva Vilevska
> Asnaggazeth
> Sir Fancys Bacon
> 
> 

I believe that it is required for all players to be capable of passing the
Turing Test. With Imaginary entities, it is impossible to determine whether
the entity or the person imagining the entity is the one taking the test,
and therefore it is impossible to prove that any imaginary entity is capable
of passing it.
-- 
Wonko