Re: [s-d] [s-b] take THIS, causality!

["Geoffrey Spear" <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Jamie Dallaire
<bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hmmm. I'm torn between objecting and submitting a consultation about the
> legality of this. Only I'm not sure if we can win by paradox yet :-D

Well, the beauty of it is that it's clearly not legal now, but after I
activate it it will have been legal all along. (This sort of reasoning
is exactly why nomics tend to ban retroactive actions under normal
circumstances, but I say extraordinarily bad gamestate calls for
extraordinary actions.  The fact that it's ambiguous whether we're in
a State of Emergency at all or whether there are just a couple of
Panic Buttons that are on is definitely a problem, and this proposed
Tweak is my way of implementing Ivan Hope's "let's just pretend
everything that we thought happened actually happened" suggestion in a
more nomic-natured, less meta-decision type of way.  Or we could start
drafting rules for the First Era of C Nomic :)
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