SkArcher on Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:10:35 -0500 (CDT)


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Re: [spoon-discuss] Thoughts toward a universal Nomic calendar


On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:36:04 -0400, Craig <ragnarok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Cementing, or even concretifying, the glorious dominion of B Nomic
over the world is a good thing. But if the recognizer were delayed
12 hours, the calendar would be off by a day, creating chaos years
down the line. Writs of Delay would also complicate matters. What if
time progressed even when the clock was off? Some nweeks might be very
short, but the calendar would be predictable.

The short nweek problem would be easy enough to fix - just lengthen the
nweek.

Hrm, there's three checkpoints per nweek, right? If they each last four
ndays, and we have a two-day freeze at the end of the nweek for voting
(which other Nomics might be happy about - I know Agora has a weekly ballot, for instance, and if we can get the Serious Nomic to adopt our calendar it's
definitely universal), then a new nweek begins every fourteen days. This
would also sync it up with the outsiders' week, so that we could have voting
happen every other weekend.

One thing I once thought of proping was changing the schedule so that Props could only be made in the first checking period (any made thereafter are for the next nweeks ballot), then the second checking period happens, then the voting period. Perhaps modifications can be made to props in the second checking period, so that you'd have a clear order of business - proposal, debate, vote


SkArcher
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